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Picture Selection and Itemspacing

Wenkuo — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:04:19 GMT

Hi,

There are two questions that I am currently stuck on.

I have 5 folders of pictures.

I know that I can tell inquisit to use pictures of a given folder in this way:

<pictures a>

/1 = "folder 1/picture a.jpg"

</picture>

What I would like to know, however, is if there is an elegant solution to tell inquisit to select a different folder, depending on the participant number?

For example:

If the participant number is 3, I want to use pictures from folder 1. If the participant number is 2, use pictures from folder 4, etc.

I currently do it by using 4 slightly different versions of the task, but I would like to combine it all into a single version if possible.

The other question I have concerns the following:

<radiobuttons faces_danger_recall>
/ caption = ""
/ options = ("Veilig ", "Gevaarlijk")
/ required = true
/ position = (30%, 80%)
/ orientation = horizontal
</radiobuttons>

<radiobuttons faces_location_recall>
/ caption = ""
/ options = ("Huis ", "Appartement")
/ required = true
/ position = (31%, 80%)
/ orientation = horizontal
</radiobuttons>

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Placing the recall questions in a surveypage &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

<surveypage faces_danger_recall>
/ questions = [1 = faces_danger_recall]
/ stimulusframes = [1 = faces_no_info_default]
/ showpagenumbers = false
/ showquestionnumbers = false
/ showmousecursor = true
/ finishlabel = "Volgende"
/ nextbuttonposition = (90%, 90%)
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 36, false, false, false, false, 5)
</surveypage>

<surveypage faces_location_recall>
/ questions = [1 = faces_location_recall]
/ stimulusframes = [1 = faces_no_info_default2]
/ showpagenumbers = false
/ showquestionnumbers = false
/ showmousecursor = true
/ finishlabel = "Volgende"
/ nextbuttonposition = (90%, 90%)
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 36, false, false, false, false, 5)
</surveypage>

I was wondering if there is any way to change the spacing between the options of the radiobuttions.
I know that I can use /itemspacing to change the spacing between multiple items. But is there a way to do this within radiobuttons itself?
And if so, does it matter if the item is shown horizontally of vertically?
Right now, I just use empty spaces to space them out, but it would be nice if there is a more elegant way.

RE: Picture Selection and Itemspacing

Wenkuo — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:04:19 GMT

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the fast and apt reply!

RE: Picture Selection and Itemspacing

Dave — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 04:30:13 GMT

This has to do with how Inquisit tries to determine how much on-screen space to allocate for each option. Those assumptions partly break down in your case due to the greatly varying length of the options (e.g. "North America" vs. "Asia").

Workarounds:
(1) Use a fixed order.
(2) Switch the /orientation to vertical.
(3) Artificially make the length of each option approximately equal using tabs:

<radiobuttons animal_location_options>
/ caption = ""
/ options = ("North America", "South America", "Europe~t~t", "Asia~t~t", "Africa~t~t", "Australia~t~t")
/ required = true
/ position = (5%, 60%)
/ orientation = horizontal
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 2.5%, false, false, false, false, 5)
/ order = random
</radiobuttons>

RE: Picture Selection and Itemspacing

Wenkuo — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 03:01:16 GMT

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the answer!

Also, I was hoping that you could explain something for me. It concerns the following piece of code:

<text animal_location_question_text>
/ items = ("Where do you think the animal on the picture lives?")
/ position = (50%, 55%)
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 28, false, false, false, false, 5)
</text>

<radiobuttons animal_location_options>
/ caption = ""
/ options = ("North America", "South America" , "Europe", "Asia", "Africa", "Australia")
/ required = true
/ position = (5%, 60%)
/ orientation = horizontal
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 28, false, false, false, false, 5)
/ order = random
</radiobuttons>

<surveypage animal_location_answer>
/ questions = [1 = animal_location_options]
/ stimulusframes = [1 = animal_pictures; 2 = animal_location_question_text]
/ showpagenumbers = false
/ showquestionnumbers = false
/ showmousecursor = true
/ finishlabel = "Volgende"
/ nextbuttonposition = (90%, 90%)
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 28, false, false, false, false, 5)
</surveypage>

Within <radiobuttons>, whenever I use /order = random, the options appear all jumbled/overlapped on screen. For example, South America overlaps with North America at times. Yet, when I remove the /order = random, the options appear clearly on screen, without any overlap/jumbling.

I've tried placing the options in different orders, without using /order = random, and none of the problems that I get when using /order = random appears. So I was wondering why this happens?

RE: Picture Selection and Itemspacing

Dave — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 04:09:49 GMT

> What I would like to know, however, is if there is an elegant solution to tell inquisit to select a different folder, depending on the participant
> number?

You can do that using conditional <include> elements. See. e.g. https://www.millisecond.com/forums/FindPost10316.aspx

> I know that I can use /itemspacing to change the spacing between multiple items. But is there a way to do this within radiobuttons itself?

No, there isn't.