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How to hide the response info bar?

Blackadder — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:49:22 GMT

This one must have been answered before but I cannot find it either in the forums or in the help.

How do I hide the response info bar displayed at the bottom of the screen by Inquisit 5? And why is this standard behavior all of a sudden? Do we have to change all existing scripts?

Kind regards, Malte

Blackadder — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:49:22 GMT

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[b]NickLevy1990 - Tuesday, January 3, 2017[/b]

I am having the same problem with a script of mine, a response bar shows up and I don't want it to.

Hey Nick, the last information I have is that the Millisecond dev team was able to fix the problem and that the fix will be part of the next update.

Best, Malte

NickLevy1990 — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:11:10 GMT

Hi All,

I am having the same problem with a script of mine, a response bar shows up and I don't want it to.

However, I'm not running a hybrid device at all, just a laptop with inbuilt keyboard (running windows 8.1 x64) I feel like I've tried everything under the sun to get rid of it. Could you please email me the same build to see if it fixes my problem also?

Thanks,
Nick
nkalevy@gmail.com

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

Blackadder — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:42:24 GMT

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[b]seandr - Wednesday, December 07, 2016[/b]

Hi Malte, I've emailed you a link to an Inquisit build that should fix this problem. It would be great if you could test it out to confirm.

Thanks,
Sean

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Alright, testing right now.

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

seandr — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:47:27 GMT

Hi Malte, I've emailed you a link to an Inquisit build that should fix this problem. It would be great if you could test it out to confirm.

Thanks,
Sean

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

Dave — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:54:43 GMT

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[b]Blackadder - Tuesday, December 06, 2016[/b]

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[b]seandr - Tuesday, December 06, 2016[/b]

Hi Malte,
Ok, if your computer does in fact have a keyboard attached, then the response bar should NOT appear. Is it possible the keyboard is somehow temporarily disabled on those devices when you launch the experiment (I'm not familiar with those devices so I don't know if it's possible to turn the keyboard on/off)? If not, then it appears Inquisit has a bug in determining whether a keyboard is present. We'll investigate ASAP, thanks for reporting this.
-Sean

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Dear Sean, thanks so much for responding. The keyboard is definitely not disabled. Regular keyboard entries are possible without any problem. Inquisit will register keypresses on the hardware keyboard or an attached USB keyboard immediately and correctly. This seems to be a bug.

Since you do not have one of the devices we tested with lying around, is there anything I could do to help?

Kind regards
Malte

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As a temporary fix / workaround, disabling the touch-screen in the Windows device manager ( http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-touch-screen-windows-10 ) should prevent the response bar from ever showing up on those hybrid devices. Obviously this is only practical for systems under your direct control (lab devices, not participant's own / home devices), so I'm not sure how useful this is even on a temporary basis. I wanted to throw it out there nonetheless just in case.

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

seandr — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:11:47 GMT

Hi Malte,
Thanks for your offer to help. If we can't reproduce the problem here, it might be helpful if we could remotely access one of the machines for troubleshooting. In any case, we'll try on our local machines first and let you know if we get stuck.
Thanks,
Sean

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

Blackadder — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:06:14 GMT

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[b]seandr - Tuesday, December 06, 2016[/b]

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RE: How to hide the response info bar?

seandr — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:43:09 GMT

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

Blackadder — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:29:47 GMT

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[b]seandr - Monday, December 05, 2016[/b]

Hi Malte,
I think of a few different approaches
1) Plug a keyboard into the device so the response bar isn't required
2) Adjust your scripts to use mouse input (which will translate to touch on a touchscreen) so that the response bar isn't required
3) Adjust your scripts to instruct participants to use the response bar instead of the keyboard when no keyboard is present so that they aren't confused.

-Sean

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Hi Sean, thanks a lot for your detailed response, very much appreciated.

The bullet point I don't fully comprehend is no. 1. The scripts are run on regular desktop PCs or notebooks with either a functional keyboard attached or - in case of notebooks - a built-in keyboard. Do I understand correctly that point no. 1 assumes that we have no keyboard attached? If so, this is not the case.

The devices we tested on were devices where either a touch-enabled monitor was connected or convertible notebooks (Yoga 3, Yoga 900s, and HP Spectre 360). Although those devices have touch functionality we always require the keyboard as the primary input device. Could it be that Inquisit brings up the response bar whenever touch capability is detected, regardless of whether a keyboard is attached or not? If so, I would consider this a bug.

To maintain backwards compatibility, I'd assume Inquisit to behave as follows:

If the device is touch-enabled and has a physical keyboard: do not show the response bar by default but provide an in-script option to always turn it on.
If the device is touch-enabled but has no physical keyboard: always show the response bar
If the device only has a physical keyboard: do not show the response bar by default but provide an in-script option to always turn it on.
If the device neither is touch-enabled nor has a physical keyboard: always show the response bar and automatically enable mouse input

In any case, I deem the automatic display of the response bar for devices with a physical keyboard to be a flawed design that potentially conflicts with scripts written for pre v5 versions.

Kind regards, Malte

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

seandr — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:28:17 GMT
Hi Malte,
I think of a few different approaches
1) Plug a keyboard into the device so the response bar isn't required
2) Adjust your scripts to use mouse input (which will translate to touch on a touchscreen) so that the response bar isn't required
3) Adjust your scripts to instruct participants to use the response bar instead of the keyboard when no keyboard is present so that they aren't confused.

-Sean

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

Blackadder — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:14:59 GMT

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[b]seandr - Monday, December 05, 2016[/b]
Hi Malte,
The response bar should only appear for scripts that use keyboard input when they are run on touchscreen devices that do not have a keyboard. Are you seeing the bar in other circumstances?
-Sean
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This is exactly the circumstance in which it appears. How can I disable this. Our lab subjects as well as our web participants are highly confused by this. Plus, we have scripts that rely on the complete height of the screen being available. How can we disable the response bar?

Kind regards, Malte

RE: How to hide the response info bar?

seandr — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:40:00 GMT
Hi Malte,
The response bar should only appear for scripts that use keyboard input when they are run on touchscreen devices that do not have a keyboard. Are you seeing the bar in other circumstances?
-Sean