Stopping Entered Text disappearing off screen
mvinski
mtvinski at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 01:49:51 UTC 2013
Hi Anthony,
What do you mean by requiring a SPACE inserted on each line?
M
On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:33:25 AM UTC-4, Evertox wrote:
>
> Just to let everyone know. With the help of Michiel, i have resolved
> the problem.
> Unlike Microsoft Word and NotePad, the wordwrap option in E-Prime
> requires a SPACE inserted on each line.
> Cheers
> Anthony McGuffie
>
> On Jul 19, 6:19 pm, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > If you like, you are welcome to email the e-prime 1 file to me; I'll
> have a look at it tomorrow.
> > Best,
> > Mich
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > Van: e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> namens Evertox
> > Verzonden: ma 19-7-2010 17:47
> > Aan: E-Prime
> > Onderwerp: Re: Stopping Entered Text disappearing off screen
> >
> > Hi Michiel,
> >
> > I appreciate your knowledge and assistance and I understand this is a
> > small subject group for user support.
> >
> > I am having a problem uploading files to this Group for user viewing.
> > I used to be able to do this a while back.
> >
> > I have sent the example file to PST support for troubleshooting and
> > just wanted to ask if anyone was aware of this issue.
> >
> > CR and LF is the old Carriage Return and Line Feed (Return). It is
> > mentioned in the help files.
> >
> > I have used both EP1(Service Pack 3) and EP2 to test this problem. I
> > will upload a EP1 sample version to the PST forum for others to view.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Anthony McGuffie
> >
> > On Jul 19, 5:13 pm, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi Anthony,
> > > First off, to cite David McFarlane, " I do not work for PST.", a bit
> of effort spent on clarity would be much appreciated. What is CR / LF? I
> looked at the file, but it's an e-prime 2 file, so I can't do much about it
> (I only have e-prime 1 here). I tried using an Echo object on a simple
> display object in E-Prime 1 and it seems to do the word-wrap correctly.
> >
> > > If you like, you could also run a text-display in a little loop to do
> exactly the same as the echo function; i.e., just enter a Label (let's say,
> Label1) just before the text display, set the text display's max count to 1
> again, duration to 10 ms (or something) and check the response. Say, the
> textdisplay is called TextDisplay1, then use something like:
> >
> > > If TextDisplay1.RESP <> {ENTER} then
> > > TextDisplay1.TEXT = TextDisplay1.TEXT & TextDisplay1.RESP
> > > Goto Label1
> > > End if
> >
> > > If word-wrap works for a normal textdisplay, then it ought to work for
> this as well. If it doesn't... perhaps a bug in your version of e-prime?
> >
> > > Sorry if I can't be of much more help - lacking E-Prime2, I expect
> somebody else might be of more use.
> > > Best,
> > > Mich
> >
> > > Michiel Spapé
> > > Research Fellow
> > > Perception & Action group
> > > University of Nottingham
> > > School of Psychology
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:
> e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf Of Evertox
> > > Sent: 19 July 2010 16:45
> > > To: E-Prime
> > > Subject: Re: Stopping Entered Text disappearing off screen
> >
> > > Hi Michiel,
> >
> > > First off, i cannot upload an example file to the files section so it
> > > is on the pstnet forum -
> http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic671-5-1.aspx
> >
> > > I am using the TextDisplay Echo option recording participants thoughts
> > > for 5 minuites and showing them what thae have typed just like a word
> > > document.
> >
> > > Everything works except for a CR and LF at the end of the screen so
> > > they cannot see what they have typed.
> >
> > > As Quoted by Matt Lenhrart at PST in this thread------"make sure the
> > > "Word Wrap" box is checked so that long responses will not go off-
> > > screen (i.e. they will simply move down to the next line)."
> >
> > > Cheers
> >
> > > Anthony McGuffie
> >
> > > On Jul 19, 3:58 pm, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Could you explain a bit more as to what exactly your problem is? Is
> text left and right disappearing from the screen (say, from every line of
> text), or do you just try to fit more text on a screen than can be
> displayed (such that the last bits of text at the very end are cut off)?
> Or, finally, is the problem that no new-lines are entered into the
> textdisplay echo (if you're using that)?
> > > > The first possible issue, which could conceivably be your
> problem, usually happens because the monitor isn't correctly configured to
> display 640x480 resolutions (a rather ancient - say, windows 3.1 - default
> resolution). To do something about that, just run your experiment and
> fiddle with the monitor until the width and height are actually within the
> scope of the screen.
> > > > Obviously, the second of these issues cannot magically be
> resolved; I mean, given that you're using a full-screen text display, it
> can only contain so much text before there's no more screen left. Changing
> font-size or resolution will, as said, fix that problem, as would some
> implementation of 'press N for next page'; but apart from that, a box can
> only contain so many objects before the contents will spill over, so to
> say.
> > > > The third issue, word-wrap itself being the problem, might
> be resolved by manually (as in, with some code) adding new-lines to the
> text. I suppose that can't be too hard. Dump this in an empty experiment as
> an inline and run to see what I mean
> > > > -----------
> >
> > > > dim inputstring as string
> > > > dim outputstring as string
> > > > dim previousnum as integer
> > > > dim i as integer
> > > > inputstring = "This is an example string"
> >
> > > > previousnum = 1
> > > > for i = 6 to len(inputstring) step 5
> > > > outputstring = outputstring & mid(inputstring, previousnum,
> 5) & "\n"
> > > > previousnum = i
> > > > next i
> >
> > > > debug.print outputstring
> > > > ------------
> > > > Output:
> > > > This
> > > > is an
> > > > exam
> > > > ple s
> >
> > > > ----------
> > > > How's that? This piece of code converts the inputstring to a rather
> crudely cut outputstring, by adding new lines after every 5th letter. Of
> course, you'd need to find out how many letters fit on the screen, then
> adjusting 'step 5' to 'step howmanyletters' and 'for i = 6' to 'for I =
> howmanyletters + 1'
> > > > Best,
> > > > Mich
> >
> > > > Michiel Spapé
> > > > Research Fellow
> > > > Perception & Action group
> > > > University of Nottingham
> > > > School of Psychology
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:
> e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf Of Evertox
> > > > Sent: 19 July 2010 15:34
> > > > To: E-Prime
> > > > Subject: Stopping Entered Text disappearing off screen
> >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I asked a question last week regarding a TextDisplay WordWrap
> problem.
> > > > Does anybody have a script to ensure a participants text entered is
> > > > ALL shown on the screen.
> > > > I do not want to change the screen resolution or font size to
> achieve
> > > > this.
> > > > I am trying a few methods based on the InputMask and EchoClient
> > > > objects but have not succeeded so far.
> > > > I need something fairly quickly and would appreciate assistance.
> > > > Anthony McGuffie
> > > > Coventry University
> >
> > > > --
> > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "E-Prime" group.
> > > > To post to this group, send email to e-p... at googlegroups.com<javascript:>.
>
> > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> e-prime+u... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>.
> > > > For more options, visit this group athttp://
> groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en.
> >
> > > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an
> attachment
> > > > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer
> system:
> > > > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications
> with the
> > > > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK
> legislation.
> >
> > > --
> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "E-Prime" group.
> > > To post to this group, send email to e-p... at googlegroups.com<javascript:>.
>
> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> e-prime+u... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>.
> > > For more options, visit this group athttp://
> groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en.
> >
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "E-Prime" group.
> > To post to this group, send email to e-p... at googlegroups.com<javascript:>.
>
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> e-prime+u... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>.
> > For more options, visit this group athttp://
> groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "E-Prime" group.
To post to this group, send email to e-prime at googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to e-prime+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/e-prime/-/wiDZEjlPrrwJ.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/eprime/attachments/20130103/5a5e9465/attachment.htm>
More information about the Eprime
mailing list