Feedback and inline script

Thu Nov 8 17:02:50 UTC 2012

In cases like this, I offer only generic advice.  As you have already 
found, the manuals that come with E-Prime are essential and make good 
starting tutorials, but are entirely inadequate for anything 
further.  If you and your supervisor are both novices to computer 
programming in general, then you would do best by taking the time out 
to first do any course in Introduction to Computer Programming just 
to get the underlying concepts, then come back to E-Prime.  If either 
of your are already familiar with computer programming in general but 
just not E-Prime in particular, then the best advice I can give is a 
shameless plug for my online E-Prime course, see link below.  You 
might also look at the essays at 
http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/5425e03968cab428 
and 
http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/b0ce54870b723fc3 .

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At 11/8/2012 11:45 AM Thursday, Gulshan Tahir wrote:
>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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