How to only display certain items/rows of a nested list in a TextDisplay

[mattias.kurnik at gmail.com]

Hi Armina! Nice to meet you!

Ok, I inserted some labels into the trial line, not really knowing what I 
was doing, then I just thought "oh forget about it you have better things 
to do". I will do this today then, and it will probably work very fast, 
because it looks very reasonable that path you described :)

Thanks! It was nice of you to help!

Regards,
Mattias!

Den torsdagen den 8:e maj 2014 kl. 12:36:22 UTC+2 skrev armina:
>
> Hi Mattias,
>
> I would use label object for that.
> try put your sentences into list under two attributes (say, Target and 
> Question) and mark empty cells in the Question as 0.
> the procedure would be the following: 
> Target TextDisplay
> InLine
> Question TextDisplay
> Label_NoQuestion
>
> InLine content: 
> If c.GetAttrib ("Question")="0" then 
> GoTo Label_NoQuestion
> Else
> End If
>
> it should work. 
> good luck!
> armina
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:06:59 UTC+3, mattias... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am putting together an experiment in the builder and have run into a 
>> small problem I can't seem to solve.
>>
>> The experiment is a list of 120 sentences being showed in random order by 
>> a TextDisplay. 32 of these have a comprehension question to go with them. 
>> All sentences are paired up in the same .txt-file, and by the 88 of the 120 
>> sentences that lack a comprehension question there is a gap (alternatively 
>> a 'junk value') instead of a comprehension question.
>>
>> I have set this up as follows: a main list with the 120 sentences as one 
>> list attribute, which is retrieved from a file saved on the hard drive. I 
>> have just typed in [<120sentences>] the first row ("ID") so that it 
>> retrieves the lot from a tab delimited text file, and the same name 
>> ([<120sentences>]) in the TextDisplay window. Then I have a nested list 
>> (List2) in the one containing the 120 sentences (List1). It has the same 
>> set up: 1 attribute; this time with [<32 sentences + (120-32) gaps where I 
>> have no text>], so that it retrieves all those sentences from the other row 
>> in the list. The text files are set up correctly and function. The thing I 
>> cannot do is get rid of the 88 gaps which pop up every time I run the 
>> program. The gaps are there because I need to make sure that the 
>> comprehension question is paired up with the correct sentence.
>>
>> I have tried a number of things:
>>
>> 1) I have tried to set the default value of the list to "nothing at all", 
>> and had no value at all in the gap next to sentences which lack a 
>> comprehension question to see if I could instruct the program to simply not 
>> print anything for those places in the list.
>>
>> 2) I have tried to write a criterion in an inlist which says:         If 
>> TextDisplay2.ACC = 0 then List2.Terminate                'TextDisplay2' is 
>> the text output I see on the screen coming from the nested list. 'List2' is 
>> the name of the nested list. To try and make the program terminate and go 
>> back to the start of the loop - List 1 (and rest of the loop)... followed 
>> by List 2... - then from the beginning again - before it performs the 
>> process that leads to the pop up of a blank slide with the default value on 
>> it. I have not got this to work. I have tried with other values than 0 - 
>> "x" for a string of "x" in it, and then put "x" in all those gaps in the 
>> list I have made. That did not work though.
>>
>> 3) I have tried to put all the values in the nested list into the list 
>> manually in Eprime, by making 120 rows, and then putting the Weight to 0 
>> for all the Gap sentences with the hope that this will instruct the program 
>> to not print these ones. But that does not work either, it still prints 
>> them.
>>
>> I have probably done one or few other things I cannot remember right now, 
>> but these 3 points summarize the main strategies I have been using, so all 
>> those other attempts have just been variations on them. The fact stands 
>> that none of them seem to work.
>>
>> So I'd be indebted to anybody who cared to offer some pointers, thanks. I 
>> have looked in the manual, that's how I found the inLine "If ---.ACC = X 
>> then ---.Terminate". Maybe I am not looking hard enough...
>>
>> Grateful for your assistance!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mattias
>>
>

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