Stop Movie troubles

David McFarlane mcfarla9 at msu.edu
Thu Dec 6 18:35:20 UTC 2012


Roberto,

Glad that you have found the Group helpful.  For this one, I typed 
"e-prime moviedisplay stop" into Google for you, and came up with the 
following thread which should 
help:  https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g .

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David McFarlane
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At 12/5/2012 11:00 PM Wednesday, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>This message board has helped me a lot!  I was hoping someone would 
>be able to help me with a problem I have not yet been able to solve.
>
>Im setting up an experiment that has this structure:
>1. Intro screens (obviously)
>2. Slide with sub objects: text and SoundOut
>3. Slide with sub objects: MovieDisplay and SoundOut (i.e. movie and 
>question presented simultaneously)
>4. SoundOut object on its own (i.e. a beep) with recorded response 
>(i.e. press 1 or 2).
>5. Text slide with response (1 to 6).
>
>I am running into trouble in step 3.  I would ultimately love for 
>the movie to keep playing until a response is made after the beep 
>(in step 4).  This way a subject can see the video (plus hear some 
>audio) and then make a response after a beep noise to which it would 
>cause the stopping of the video.  Thus, i have set the MovieDisplay 
>with the settings as End Movie Action: "Terminate" and Stop Movie 
>after: "No" so it can keep playing.  However, when i do this the 
>movie continues playing until its end, even after making a response 
>after the auditory beep.  I have tried to insert in-line code after 
>the beep (i.e. Movie1.Stop) as this fellow poster did: 
>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g/R0isrcBcBhQJ 
>, but this just closes down the entire program.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is there any way i can tell 
>eprime to end the movie (or the slide itself) after a response to 
>the beep (in step 4) is made? I am not very proficient with code, 
>although i have tried many shenanigans to get around this!
>
>Thank you for any help or advice!
>Roberto

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