Upper/Lower Case

[Lizzie]

Thank-you both for your help, that's brilliant.

Happy Christmas!

On Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:34:39 PM UTC, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> Lizzie, 
>
> I can confirm that JACanterbury's advice works.  It seems that the 
> ACC scoring mechanism is case-insenstive, so for Correct an entry of 
> either "z" or "Z" will match a response of either "z" or "Z" (I don't 
> know that this is documented anywhere).  I tested this with EP1.2 
> (which I much prefer for exploratory exercises), I assume the same 
> holds for EP2. 
>
> Of course, there is always the low-tech solution documented at 
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/6ff76d4d7b9575f8 
> three years ago:  Just yank out the offending key, and if necessary, 
> back that up with a healthy dose of epoxy.  No one needs a Caps Lock 
> key anyway, and spare/replacement keyboards are cheap if you ever do 
> need the Caps Lock. 
>
> -- David McFarlane 
>
>
> At 12/20/2012 08:53 AM Thursday, JACanterbury wrote: 
> >on the slide's properties, on the duration/input tab, set the 
> >'duration' to infinite' and set 'allowable' to zZmM and the end 
> >action to Terminate 
> > 
> >On Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:34:22 PM UTC, Lizzie wrote: 
> >Hi All, 
> > 
> >I'm new to e-prime and am currently programming the first study for 
> >my PhD. I have managed to get everything working (eventually!) and 
> >have one final issue I wonder if anyone can help me with. 
> > 
> >In the task, two letters on the keyboard are assigned as 'correct' 
> >or 'incorrect' responses (z and m). Is there any way to set it so 
> >that responses are captured, whether caps lock is on or not? I ran a 
> >few pilot trials and in a couple, participants accidentally hit the 
> >caps lock button at some point, without realising, and therefore all 
> >of their responses from that point were not recorded (i.e. data 
> >output said they had not answered). 
> > 
> >I tried adding two 'correct response' columns (i.e. both Z and z) 
> >but this seemed to be make it so that a correct response has to 
> >include both buttons (Zz). 
> > 
> >Any help would be gratefully received! 
> > 
> >Thanks, 
> >Lizzie 
>
>

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