Highlighting Objects Based on Subject Response

[Paul Groot]

Hi Nate,

I usually implement object highlighting  by changing the objects background
colour or bounding box style. E.g.

        hitObject.BackColor = CColor("silver")
        hitObject.Draw

Where hitObject is the selected slide (sub)object, which can be a SlideText
or SlideImage object. You can modify any graphics attribute on the fly
using similar code. (Check out the help docs about SlideText and SlideImage
object attributes)

If you use the keyboard to select "1" or "2", then you can use the names of
the objects to get a reference to the selected slide sub object:

Dim theState As SlideState
Dim hitObject As SlideText  'in case this the selected object is a text
object
Set theState = theSlide.States(theSlide.ActiveState)
Select Case theSlide.RESP
case "1"
   hitObject = theState.Objects("Text1")
case "2"
   hitObject = theState.Objects("Text2")
End Select

When using the mouse you could use the theState.HitTest(x,y) method to
determine which object was selected (if any).

The second part of your question is about having a fixed response window of
6 seconds, while updating the slide objects at the same time. There are
several way's to implement this, and I think a simple while-loop that polls
the isPending() method is the easiest:
http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=3026

Cheers
Paul

2012/10/6 NW Stroh <strohnw at gmail.com>

> Hello all,
>
> I would like to highlight an object based on the subject's response.  The
> basic flow is a repetition of 1) a Text Frame round counter, 2) a Text
> Frame presentation of a starting amount, and then 3) a framing prompt on a
> Slide similar to the one below.  The boxes are black and the lines
> thicker.  The subject then makes their choice using 1 or 2.  The subject
> has six seconds to make a choice and the slide stays up the whole duration.
>  Ideally, I would like the box surrounding the selected option to change
> color while the slide is still displayed but I am open to any and all
> suggestions.
>
> I got one of the boxes to change using an Inline and the Correct State of
> a Feedback Slide.  This ultimately interrupts our timing because the
> feedback displays after the slide.  I tried to borrow some code from an
> older experiment, but I have not yet gotten it working and the coder is not
> available to help.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  If worse comes
> to worse, I will use an Echo Display but I think it is a sub-optimal
> solution.  Thank you in advance.
>
> Nate
>
>
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