Sound filename empty??

Mon Feb 18 21:59:04 UTC 2013

If I were you I would rebuild the entire program from scratch, 
especially since it is a simple one as you say.  And this time I 
would do test runs after each step along the way, so that I could 
detect the moment when it breaks (which is pretty much the way I always work).

Good luck,
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At 2/18/2013 04:27 PM Monday, cogneuro wrote:
>Ah, I didn't even think to do that. The sounds work fine when they 
>are in a new e-prime file! It must be something in this program 
>other than the sound that it doesn't like. I don't understand 
>though, it's a pretty simple experiment. It just plays some sounds, 
>shows some pictures, and has a few text displays. There was some 
>code because it is an fMRI study and needs to connect to the port, 
>but I tried commenting out the code in case that was the problem and 
>it still was messed up. I keep getting this error though.
>
>"Run-time Error (Line 802) -999: Unable to find the sound file specified"
>
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:37 PM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>What happens when you run the SoundRT example that comes with 
>E-Prime?  What happens if you substitute the sound files in SoundRT 
>with your the sound files from your new experiment?  What happens 
>when you try to play your sound files with a simple .es2 program 
>that does nothing but play sound files?
>
>-- David McFarlane
>
>
>
>At 2/18/2013 08:49 AM Monday, cogneuro wrote:
>Thank you guys for the replies! I've looked for whitespace and could 
>not find any. The names are very short and simple and I highlighted 
>them to see if there was any spaces. Anything else it could be? Does 
>changing the buffer size impact this? I am totally stumped as to why 
>this won't work other than it being a weird window's 7 problem with e-prime 2.0
>
>On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:03 AM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu><mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>Among the exotic characters to look out for is whitespace (e.g., 
>space, tab) at the end of file names.  *You* will not see that white 
>space, but the *computer* will, and will insist on matching the 
>names using whitespace and all.
>
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>At 2/14/2013 07:12 PM Thursday, Paul Groot wrote:
>no idea, except for trivial ones...
>
>Are there any exotic characters in the name of the file. Try 
>renaming it to a short name.
>Also make sure to include the file extension properly. Windows 
>explorer doesn't show the file extension by default, so you should 
>change this setting to make sure you see the complete name. And be 
>sure not to use double extensions in explorer. A see this very often 
>because some people add a second extension when the first was not 
>visible. I think this is not a problem when you just select an 
>existing file with using the file selection dialog box.
>
>paul
>
>On 14 February 2013 21:08, cogneuro 
><<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com><mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com>neuropsych76 at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>Thank you for the reply :)
>
>I did try what you said and while I'm still having issues, I think 
>I'm making progress. The error message I get now after removing all 
>of the unreferenced objects is, ' Run-time Error (Line 802) -999: 
>Unable to find the sound file specified' But I know for sure I am 
>using the same name as the file in my folder! Do you know what else 
>could cause this error??
>
>
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Groot 
><<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com><mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com>pfc.groot at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>I would try to run the same script, but with all audio completely 
>removed. Just to make check if it is related to the sound. You could 
>also try to create a very simple test script that only has a 
>start-up screen and a sound object to play the audio (using the same 
>settings as the original script). The idea is to isolate the 
>problem/crash to get an idea of what is going on. Because the crash 
>immediately occurs when the script is started, it could be related 
>to the initialisation of devices.
>
>paul
>
>
>On 14 February 2013 01:05, cogneuro 
><<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com><mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com>neuropsych76 at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>While I run the script, e-studio crashes. No error messages pop up. 
>The program starts to run, then a white screen appears, and then the 
>entire program dies :/
>
>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Paul Groot 
><<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com><mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com>pfc.groot at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>Does e-studio crash while editing, or are you having troubles when 
>running the script? Any error messages? Is it reproducible?
>
>paul
>
>
>On 13 February 2013 23:19, cogneuro 
><<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com><mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.com>neuropsych76 at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>Ah, thank you! That did sort of work and I was silly not to check there first.
>
>Now though the actually program crashes and I get a windows error 
>when I run my experiment! I know e-prime crashes a lot, but it has 
>done it 5 times in a row and I can't figure out how deleting 
>unreferenced objects would do this.
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Paul Groot 
><<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com><mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com>pfc.groot at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>perhaps there is a soundout object (or slide with sound) in the 
>'unused items' section that was not configured properly. Just remove 
>it permanently to get rid of the error,
>
>Paul

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