Problems with triggers from e-prime to Aquisition (URGENT)

[David McFarlane]

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At 5/31/2014 06:07 PM Saturday, Gabriel Mograbi wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>the original transcript is:
>
>question2.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question2.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question2.OnsetSignalEnabled= True
>question2OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products2.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products2.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products2.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products2OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>question1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question1.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>question1.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products1.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products1OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>question1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question1.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>question1.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products3.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products3.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products3.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products3.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>and runs well - the only problem is when I insert the Writeport 
>after each condition. Then, the first command stops working!
>
>Thanks again!
>
>
>
>On Saturday, May 31, 2014 2:47:29 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Mograbi wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I am a complete newbie in e-prime. A philosopher by formation 
>venturing myself in a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience. And I 
>an running against time to run an experiment before my fellowship finishes.
>
>I am having problems with sending triggers to the "Aquisition" machine.
>
>In my protocol I have 3 procedures (conditions) that divide the big 
>list into 3. I have a first general Inline to open the ports. And I 
>have an Onset Inline for each of the questions and each of the 
>stimuli that can after the question. All that works. I can manage to 
>make the machines send triggers when the question 1,2 and 3 appears 
>and then when the 1,2 and 3 stimuli appears. When I try to insert an 
>InLine after the stimuli, the first trigger (the one that marks the 
>onset of the question does not work anymore)
>
>So my list is divided in 3 procedures (conditions) and each has the 
>following structure
>
>Text (ITI Fixation Cross with Jittered values)
>Inline
>question (Image Display with 2000 ms duration)
>Another ITI (Fication Cross with Jittered Values)
>Inline
>products (Stimulus/Image Display with fixed duration)
>
>
>
>My script runs like that. First in the beginning of the protocol:
>
>question2.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question2.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question2.OnsetSignalEnabled= True
>question2OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products2.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products2.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products2.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products2OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>question1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question1.OffetSignalEnabled= True
>question1.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products1.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products1OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>question1.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>question1.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>question1.OffetSignalEnabled= True
>question1.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>products3.OnsetSignalEnabled = True
>products3.OnsetSignalPort = &H378
>products3.OffsetSignalEnabled= True
>products3.OffsetSignalPort = & H378
>
>Before each condition (specific procedure)
>
>I have a Inline like that
>question2.OnsetSignalData ="2"  and so on... for each of the 
>question and products...
>
>That works all fine! But I have to use a trigger for the responses 
>of the stimuli. Whenever I insert
>
>WritePort &H378,"11"  or any other value,
>
>transforming the procedure to this structure to:
>
>Text ITI (Fixation Cross with Jittered values)
>Inline
>question (Image Display with 2000 ms duration)
>Another ITI (Fication Cross with Jittered Values)
>Inline
>product (Stimulus/Image Display with fixed duration)
>InLine - WritePort &H378,"11"
>
>
>after each product object, the first trigger (related to the 
>question) stops appearing in the aquisition machine. The Writeport 
>command functions, the products onset keeps working, but the 
>question that comes in the beginning of this condition stops appearing.
>
>I will be deeply grateful if you could help me out, as I tried 
>various (hundreds of) diverse strategies to fix the problem and 
>nothing seems to work!
>
>Best,
>
>Gabriel

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