EPrime display settings for widescreen monitors

Thu Oct 4 21:04:28 UTC 2012

You can find the display settings in the experiment->devices->display
dialog. The screen dumps in the attached pdf show how this looks like in
the current pro-release. You also might have to rearrange the layout of
your screens a.s.a. you change the display resolution. (This depends on the
properties that are shown on the second page of the attachment.) If the
experiments should be compatible with 4:3 and wide screen, then you should
carefully think about using relative positioning, adaptive font sizes,
absolute image extents, relative frame widths, etc... I also advise to
start using the new StartupInfo files, which allow you to specify device
settings (and other attributes) by using a separate file.

Unfortunately E-Prime doesn't offer a global setting to fix aspect ratio
errors. Perhaps PST could implement something similar to Presentation (i.e.
supporting a user defined coordinate system).

best
paul

2012/10/4 Speech Perception Research Lab NYU <speechlab.nyu at gmail.com>

> Thanks so much for the response David!  I do use E-Prime 2.0, but not sure
> where that dropdown menu is.  Where is the option for "Match desktop
> resolution" located?  And when you say to switch the display to 1366x768,
> do you mean within EPrime?  Sorry...I'm a bit new to this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:53:14 PM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote:
>>
>> Josh,
>>
>> What version of E-Prime do you use?  If using EP2, please note the
>> following statement that I got from PST Web Support when I
>> asked:  "E-Prime 2.0 allows any resolution supported by your video
>> card. The suggestions in the dropdown menus do use typical 4:3
>> values, but you can type in any other value you want to use provided
>> they are supported by your video card."  As far as I can tell, this
>> feature has still not been publicly documented.
>>
>> So, try setting your Display resolution to 1366x768, ignoring the
>> dropdown suggestions.  E-Prime should properly fill the screen and
>> use properly square-shaped pixels.  Or just try using "Match desktop
>> resolution at runtime" = Yes, which in this case should achive the same
>> effect.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
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>> At 10/4/2012 01:32 PM Thursday, Speech Perception Research Lab NYU wrote:
>> >Our lab just got a new experimental laptop which has a slightly
>> >different screen size than our other 2.  We run about 6 different
>> >experimental tasks in EPrime on all 3 of these machines, and when we
>> >use the new one with the wider monitor, all of the images and text
>> >get stretched horizontally.  I understand that I can fix the problem
>> >by changing the properties for each image on EPrime, but I'm
>> >wondering if there is some more general setting that I can change
>> >for the one computer so that images won't be stretched and I won't
>> >need to change individual settings within each script.  Our old
>> >laptops use a display setting of 1024x768 pixels, and this new one
>> >uses 1366x768.  Changing the display settings for the computer
>> >itself doesn't fix the problem, so I wonder if I can do it within
>> >EPrime.  In PowerPoint, for example, when presentations are viewed
>> >fullscreen on a widescreen monitor, it fills the sides with blank
>> >space so that everything can be done on a standard display size and
>> >avoid stretching.  I'm wondering if I there is an equivalent setting
>> >within EPrime.
>> >
>> >Any thoughts?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Josh
>>
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