Hello all,

  I have just got back in to using Inquisit, and a small bit of syntax I wrote up to see how it woul work for my purposes freezes every time, but only when the screencapture command is set to true. Below is the code, any pointers? Please note that it works fine if there is no screencapture.

<trial testdrawing>

/ validresponse = (28)

/ draw = cursor

/ screencapture = true

</trial>

There is obviously some sort of bug involved. I'll log it as such. Thanks for the report.

Ah, I see. Is there an anticipated date for the next patch, or perhaps the full version release?

No firm date yet, but hopefully soon (think weeks, not months).

Great! Another somewhat related question, is it possible to save each screencapture by a specific name? (E.g., save it so that the filename is the text that had been on screen when the person was making the drawing)

No, customizing the name of the screencap files is currently not possible.

Is that something that might make an appearance in Inquisit 4? It would be profoundly useful.

It might. I personally wouldn't consider it high priority, but it might be a nice addition at some point. I'll make sure your request gets added to the list of possible future improvements. However, don't underestimate the disaster potential implied by enabling custom file names (you might end up overwriting existing files in case of name collisions, errors in your script, etc.).

While we're on topic, I should probably outline the current automatic file naming scheme for screen captures here:

scriptname_subjectid_date(MMDDYY)_time(HHMMSS)_blocknumber_trialnumber.bmp

resulting in e.g.

DrawingTask_23_112612_130143_3_4.bmp

Hope this helps,

~Dave

The screencapture element seems to be somewhat corrected in the recent update, but there is still some crashing which I haven't quite sussed out just yet. However, the main issue I now see is that the draw command simply doesn't work. With it's "true" value, no drawing is made, and with a specified item (e.g., blackcircle, which is a 5px by 5px circle) there is still no drawing.