modifying a single level of an attribute using .txt file

[Melaina Vinski]

Thank you so very much! the stimuli was fixed, so including the attribute
column worked.

Again, thank you!
M

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Anne-Wil <liwenna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
> HTML tags ( <fontcolour etc) don't work in e-prime (as you discovered),
> eprime works with a language called e-basic. However, most of the time it
> won't be needed to directly use any e-basic code when building your
> experiment, loads of basic functions are available through the menus of the
> different objects.
>
> How to best proceed kinda depends on what defines which stimulus should be
> in a different colour.
>
> a) if one stimulus always has the different colour, than you could add an
> attribute 'fontcolour' to your list and enter the desired colour for each
> level in the cells, i.e. blue and purple. In the properties of the text
> object set the foreground colour to refer to the attribute fontcolour by
> entering [fontcolour]
>
> b) if a random stimulus should be given the different colour do the same
> as above but create the attribute fontcolour in a seperate list that you
> set to random and nest it into the list with the stimuluswords
>
> most likely you need
>
> c) the stimulus word that needs to have a different colour is defined by
> 'something else' (i.e. it is the targetword). Then you can either use an
> attribute fontcolour as described above and "lock" it into the same list
> that contains the attribute wich determines which word is to be the target
> word. Or, lastly, most similar to what you ask for (some command) you could
> adjust and add the following code in an inline preceding your slide or
> textobject:
>
> for a textobject within a slide:
>
> IF c.getattrib ("attributenamethatdefinesthatawordisdifferent") =  "1" THEN
>
> CSlideText(Slide1.States(Slide1.ActiveState).Objects("Text1")).forecolor=
> CColor ("red")
>
> IF c.getattrib ("attributenamethatdefinesthatawordisdifferent") = "0" THEN
>
> CSlideText(Slide1.States(Slide1.ActiveState).Objects("Text1")).forecolor=
> CColor ("blue")
>
> End If
>
>
> => in the code you should replace the attribute name, the slidename
> (slide1) and the textobjectname (text1) with the actual names that you use.
>
> for a 'standalone' textdisplay (not on a slide) I don't know the exact
> code but it's probably something like: textdisplay.forecolor = CColor
> ("blue") and you can likely find it in the e-basic help within the program.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> best,
>
> AW
>
>
>
> On Friday, 25 May 2012 17:43:54 UTC+2, mvinski wrote:
>>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I am using a text file to import levels (stimuli) for an attribute in
>> Eprime2, but would like one level of the attribute to show the stimuli
>> in a different colour. I have tried to use a command within the text
>> file to change the font colour (<fontcolour="purple">text</**font>, but
>> the stimuli just appears with the command on either side when I run
>> the experiment.
>>
>> Anyone have any other options or tips?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!!
>
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PhD Candidate
Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior
Cognitive Sciences Lab
McMaster University
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