inconsistent updating of error counting variable

[Hacker's Dad]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM, liwenna <liwenna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Doron,
>
> That sounds really weird indeed.
>
> What are the conditions presented under the "If then" lines that
> precede the elseif then line that you presented us with? If one of
> those happens to be met, than the line that you're testing now will
> not be executed. In a similar veign: are you absolutely positive that
> all trials have the trialtype set to FaceTarget, with no typoes etc?
> You probably have, but this is the only one thing that I can think of
> right away that you did not yet disconfirm in your post.
>
> If none of those than I might advice you to have the actual script
> program at by one of your colleaguesm me or someone else from here.
>
> Best,
>
> liw
>
>
>
> On 8 jan, 10:34, doron arbiv <doronar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > i have a target slide,1000 mls in duration and has a 3000 mls time
> > limit. the target slide is followed by a blank slide, 2000 mls in
> > duration, which doesn't collect any response. after the blank slide i
> > have a short script which says the following:
> > elseif c.getattrib("TrialType")="FaceTarget" then
> >      if c.getattrib("Target.ACC")=0 then FaceError=FaceError+1
> >
> > i present only two lines from the script, since i am only testing the
> > "FaceTarget" trial type for now.
> > in my test i intentionally make errors, so that the FaceError variable
> > will reach 20 (there are 20 trials in a block).
> > the problem is that while "Target.ACC" always shows a  "0" value in
> > the edata output file, the FaceError variable sometime fails to add
> > "1" to itself, as it should when "Target.ACC"=0. this happens
> > approximately twice in each block of 20 trials and i have no idea why
> > it happens.
> >
> > i have some guesses. one is that maybe "Traget.ACC" is unavailable to
> > the script following the Blank slide, so that when the condition:
> > " if c.getattrib("Target.ACC")=0 then FaceError=FaceError+1 " appears,
> > the "Target.ACC" attribute isn't ready for comparison.
> > Can you please help me with this bizarre bug?
>
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dear user,
it is global variable error
use global variable your problems will be resolved.

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