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entering response by pressing 'ENTER' on openended trialsop

Marina — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:48:50 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to program and Add-3 task where participants will see a string of 4 digits, have to add 3 to each digit, and then enter their response. I am using the openended trial for this, but want the participant to press 'ENTER' to enter their response (rather than using a mouse) because there will be many trials and I need it to go rapidly. If possible, I would also like to remove the button altogether. I have not been able to find a way to do that, and when I disable the mouse, even 'CTRL+RETURN' (which should work according to the Inquisit manual) does not work.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you,

Marina

RE: entering response by pressing 'ENTER' on openended trialsop

Dave — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:48:50 GMT

Unfortunately there are a number of known issues w/ keyboard response submission in <openended> elements in the current Inquisit release version (4.0.4 at the time of writing). Only CTRL+ENTER will work reliably at present.

RE: entering response by pressing 'ENTER' on openended trialsop

Marina — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:25:14 GMT

Hi Dave,

What you suggested worked well on my system, but now I just put the script online (http://research.millisecond.com/marinam/Mturkadd3.web), and it's no longer working. Any suggestions?

Here are the relevant portions of the code:

/ stimulustimes = [0 = signal; 1000 = eraser; 1100 = digit1; 2000 = eraser; 2100 = digit2; 3000 = eraser; 3100 = digit3;

4000 = eraser; 4100 = digit4; 5000 = eraser, response]

/ mask = positiveinteger

/ inputdevice = keyboard

/ charlimit = 4

/ size = (15%, 2.5%)

/ validresponse = (anyresponse)

/iscorrectresponse = [expressions.fulladd3 == openended.practice_add3.response]

/ontrialend = [values.correctanswer = expressions.fulladd3]

/ontrialend = [if (openended.practice_add3.correct == true) values.numcorrectadd3practice = values.numcorrectadd3practice + 1]

/ buttonlabel = "Press ENTER to continue"

/ errormessage = true(error,400)

/correctmessage = true(yescorrect, 400)

</openended>

/ preinstructions = (add3_practiceinstructions)

/onblockbegin = [values.numcorrectadd1practice = 0]

/trials = [1-5 = practice_add3; 6=morepracticeadd3]

/ branch = [if (trial.morepracticeadd3.correct == 0) block.practiceadd3]

</block>

RE: entering response by pressing 'ENTER' on openended trialsop

Dave — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:12:41 GMT

<block myblock>
/ trials = [1-10=myopenended]
</block>

<openended myopenended>
/ inputdevice = keyboard
</openended>

will accept both ENTER as well as CTRL+ENTER as far as I can tell from testing on my system. So could you please be more specific about your setup / post the relevant portions of code?

There is no way to get rid of the button, though.