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Create blinking cursor in text box with PSE?

https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic12705.aspx

By meri - 3/15/2014

Hi, 

Is it possible to have the cursor "blink" in the text box when the text box appears?

Thanks, 

Meri
By Dave - 3/15/2014

No, it isn't, I'm afraid.
By meri - 3/16/2014

Hi, oh well.  Thank you for your quick reply.

Two more questions and thank you in advance for any assistance!!

1) I would like to adjust text so that it is centered in background color.  (i.e., making it look like it is in a box separate from screen color)  Below is what I have but the text is at the very top of the rectangle.

<text PSE_questions>
/ items = ("What is happening? Who are the people?
What happened before?
What are the people thinking about and feeling?
What do they want?
What will happen next?")
/ fontstyle = ("Arial", 1.78%, false, true, false, false, 5, 0)
/ txcolor = (0, 0, 0)
/ txcolor = (0, 0, 0)
/ txbgcolor = grey
/ position = (15, 15)
/ size = (526, 150)
</text>


2) Also,  - I would like to have a "next" button appear at 4 minutes during the open-ended story .  I have this code but I'm not sure how to adapt it to the "next" button.

<openended PSE_story1>
/ linelength = 80
/ numlines = 35
/ charlimit = 20000
/ position = (50, 76)
/ stimulustimes = [0=PSE_questions; 180000=PSE_dir; 220000=eraser,PSE_warn; 240000=eraser,PSE_warn2]
/ responseframe = 1
/ mouse = true
/ buttonlabel = "                    Bitte schreiben Sie eine Geschichte über das eben gesehene Bild in das leere Fenster.                  "
/ multiline = true
</openended>

Thanks, 
Meri
By Dave - 3/16/2014

Re. #1: Set the <text> element's /size, /txbgcolor, /hjustify and /vjustify attributes to what you need.

Re. #2: You cannot make the button appear only after a certain time. The only thing you can do is not allow response submission prior to a certain point in time using the /isvalidresponse attribute:

<openended myopenended>
[...]
/ isvalidresponse = [openended.myopenended.latency > 240000]
</openended>