Creating a drop-down menu with options for subjects' responses?

Tue Jun 4 18:12:38 UTC 2013

Hi Paul,

Thank you very much for your fast reply and for sharing your in-line 
scripts implementing The Tower of Hanoi task. This is a very valuable 
example.   
Temporal precision is not crucial so mimicking a GUI would sounds like the 
most reasonable approach using E-prime.

Thank you again. 
Best wishes, Yuliya

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:14:39 PM UTC-4, Paul Groot wrote:
>
> Yuliya,
>
> Linking another application (like excel) wouldn't be a very reliable 
> method, I'm afraid (not even sure if that would be possible). 
>
> You could implement such an interface in eprime by using a series of 
> bitmap images that mimic a fancy GUI on subject responses. When a lot of 
> different images are required (because of dynamic content for example) you 
> could also use inline script to generate the screen contents. However, 
> EPrime only offers basic drawing support, so that might suboptimal. I 
> sometimes combine elementary graphics (drawn by inline script) with a fancy 
> bitmap as background image. If you would like to implement mouse-clicks 
> (instead of keyboard presses), you definitively have to deal with inline 
> scripting. (You could have a look at the following example script: 
> http://pfcgroot.nl/e-prime/84-full-scripts/74-tower-of-hanoi.html) 
>
> On the other hand: if timing is not extremely critical, you could also use 
> a more GUI-oriented programming environment (such as Visual Basic, or 
> something similar).
>
> Best
> Paul
>  
>
> On 4 June 2013 01:00, Yuliya Yoncheva <yuliya.... at gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Greetings E-prime experts,
>>
>> I am programming an experiment in E-prime 2.0 Professional, in which the 
>> optimal way to collect participants' responses would be to have them select 
>> 1 out of 10 options from a drop-down menu.
>>
>> (e.g., a subject needs to choose between "$10 in a week" or "$1 or $2 or 
>> $3 ... immediately." It is argued that offering selection from a drop-down 
>> menu promotes more careful consideration of each option.) 
>>
>> The closest example I found in the E-prime Samples database on pstnet.com<http://www.pstnet.com/support/samples.asp> was 
>> the Visual Analog scale, which would enable on-screen presentation of all 
>> options simultaneously (e.g., as 10 individual boxes), and allow the 
>> subject to click on the box of their choice. However, my participants have 
>> clinical attention deficits, therefore presenting all options at once would 
>> be too distracting and is thus not a viable idea.
>>
>> Is there a way to create a drop-down box? If not, what work-around 
>> solutions come to mind? 
>>
>> One hypothetical idea I have is to create an in-line script pausing 
>> E-prime and allowing a switch to MS Excel (where I can create a drop down 
>> menu in a file) before returning to E-prime. The duration of such 
>> subject-paced pause would be a proxy (albeit very rough) for response 
>> latency.
>>
>> I don't know whether it is even feasible. Does anyone have experience 
>> with such an approach? Alternatively, could anyone recommend a response 
>> collection software that would be better suited for building drop-down 
>> menus?
>>  
>> Any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you kindly,
>> Yuliya Yoncheva
>>
>> PS: So far the experiments I have programmed have focused on millisecond 
>> temporal precision on the presentation side (which I know is E-prime's 
>> strength), and not flexibility on the response collection interface (which 
>> I gather is not an emphasis in this particular software).
>>
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