Feedback and inline script

[Gulshan Tahir]

Dear David
 
I am a novice at this software and so is my supervisor. I have spent many weeks reading the manuals but still no help. Maybe you could enlighten me?
 
I am planning on testing 2 groups and need 2 experiments for each feedback type (positive and negative) with various versions. I only need the correct answers to appear in the positive group and the incorrect and no response to be blank. The feedback icon within the E-prime 2.0 was used as my supervisor strongly suggested I use it but when I did use the feedback icon on its own without any inline scripting all keypresses (sd= same/different) were incorrect and all blank or no responses were correct. 
 
Now, I am not sure if I should pursue the route of inline script with the feedback icon or if I should just start over and use a different method.
 
Any helpful comments would be much appreciated at this very moment in time.
 
Thank you.
 
 

> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:32:32 -0500
> To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
> From: mcfarla9 at msu.edu
> Subject: RE: Feedback and inline script
> 
> Um, fearing to tread here because the offered code sample exhibits a 
> profound lack of understanding of computer programming which no doubt 
> augurs much further trouble to come, but here goes...
> 
> The line
> 
> If "TrialStimulus"="sd" then
> 
> compares the string "TrialStimulus" to the string "sd" and that will 
> always be false, and certainly not what you meant to do. Then your 
> Else If clause performs exactly the same comparison, again certainly 
> not what you meant.
> 
> So the code that you posted should always fall through to the Else 
> clause, which sets NoResponse to "Blank.bmp". I don't quite see how 
> that results in the behavior you describe, but perhaps that happens 
> due to other code that you did not post, and in any case your If, 
> Else If, Else is deeply flawed.
> 
> If you do not yet understand the distinctions between variables and 
> literals, and how to use conditionals, then I urge you to first take 
> any Introduction to Computer Programming course before proceeding further.
> 
> -- David McFarlane
> 
> 
> At 11/8/2012 11:09 AM Thursday, Gulshan Tahir wrote:
> >Hi Susan
> >
> >Thank you I have tried that and now it works, wierd. But now I have 
> >another problem. All I receive are positive feedback for all 3 
> >response types (positive, negative and no response). Is there a way 
> >that I can maybe code it a little different so that no response and 
> >negative response show up as blank?
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >
> >----------
> >Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:58:57 -0800
> >From: susangc7 at gmail.com
> >To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
> >Subject: Re: Feedback and inline script
> >
> >Not to be a wise-ass, but did you try adding another End If at the end?
> >
> >(I don't know that your code does what you want it to, but this is a 
> >simple fix so you can keep troubleshooting.)
> >
> >HTH,
> >Susan
> >
> >On Thursday, November 8, 2012 10:53:18 AM UTC-5, 
> >pure-... at hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> >Hi All
> >
> >I have managed to receive some feedback for positive groups. However
> >when I ran the experiment all the responses excluding negative
> >responses were positive. I would like to script both negative and no
> >response as blank and had managed to do only the negative.
> >My script is as follows but now e-prime comes up with an error stating
> >encountered: end of line
> >Expecting: End if.
> >
> >My script:
> >
> >Dim CorrectAnswer as String
> >Dim IncorrectAnswer as String
> >Dim NoResponse as string
> >
> >If "TrialStimulus"="sd" then
> > CorrectAnswer= "Correct"
> >
> >Else if "TrialStimulus"="sd" then
> > InCorrectAnswer= "Blank.bmp"
> >
> >Else
> > NoResponse= "Blank.bmp"
> > End if
> >
> >
> >I would like to know what the problem is and how I can fix it as there
> >seems to not be working at all now.
> >
> >Thank you
> 
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