Hi,

I am doing a Word Completion Task right now. Incomplete words will be shown on the screen one at a time. For example, "st_de_t". Participants are required to type the letter in the "_" directly. Is it possible to do so? 

I tried to use <text> for each letter and <opended> for each blank. It turned out weird. I dont know how to cancel the label of the <opended> and each letter separated too much. Is it possible to put "st_de_t" just in one segment? 

Please help!!

Thanks!!!

That's not possible.w/ <openended>. You'd have to use various <textbox> elements on a <surveypage>, but trying to align them would be a major pain.

I recommend you consider alternatives such as showing your subjects "st_de_t" as stimulus in a simple <text> element and having them type the entire word as response (i.e., student) instead of entering only missing letters separately.

Hi Dave, 

Thanks for your suggestion. Now I got another problem. When I use openended, the box is constantly appeared. But I want the fixation "+" appears alone (not appear with the box at the same time).

Here is what I got. Do you have any way to fix it? 

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<item practice>

/1="d _ _ l"

/2="c _ _ d"

/3="p i _ _"

</item>

<item instructions>

/ 1 = "Please complete the given words and type the entire words in the box."

</item>

<text instructions>

/ items = instructions

/ size = (95%, 95%)

/fontstyle = ("Arial", 16pt, false)

/vposition = (70%)

</text>

<text practice>

/items = practice

/ fontstyle = ("Gujarati MT", 9.25%, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)

</text>

<text ready>

/ fontstyle = ("Gujarati MT", 9.25%, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)

/ items = ("+")

</text>

<trial instructions>

/ stimulustimes = [0=instructions]

/ validresponse = (" ")

/ recorddata = false

</trial>

<openended practice>

/size = (50,30)

/ position = (50, 60)

/ stimulustimes = [0=ready; 700=practice]

/ responseframe = 1

/ mouse = true

/ buttonlabel = "Next"

</openended>

<block practice>

/ trials = [1=instructions; 2-4=practice]

</block>

<expt>

/ blocks = [1=practice]

</expt>

Get rid of the inappropriate /responseframe setting.

Thanks Dave!!!

Sorry I got more questions here. 

1. Is it possible to press ENTER instead of click NEXT using <openended>?

2. Is it possible to restrict the word length for each word? For example, when a participant see " b _ _e", he is required to type in a 4-letter word. If he types in a 5-letter word, he will not go to the next page. 

Thanks so much!!!

No. Normally CTRL+ENTER would work, but that's unfortunately broken in 4.0.2.0 (the current Inquisit release version). It'll be fixed in the next.

Yes. You'll want to use the <openended>'s /isvalidresponse attribute and check if the length of the response is equal to that of the displayed stim (see the functions reference for the length() function, etc).