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Dear all,

still I am relatively new to Inquisit, scripting my first experiment at the moment. I am almost done, but now some problems with the textbox element occured.

I tried to script a textbox where subjects should type in as much words as they remember from a former task. To separate the words from each other I noticed that they could not use the SPACE key, if /mask = alphabetic. So I tried to use the element /multiline - but when I try to run the experiment ENTER does not work as well. So my simple question is: What is wrong with my script so far? Is there any option to use the full keyboard as an input source and not just the alphabetic keys? And is there any possibility to tell inquisit to use a German keyboard as the input device, so the subjects could use our letters ä,ö and ü?

Here is the script I came up with:

<textbox freerecall>
/ caption = "..."
/ mask = alphabetic
/ multiline = true
/ required = TRUE
/ responsefontstyle = ("Arial", -16, false, false, false, false, 5, 1)
/textboxsize = (40,40)
</textbox>
 
<surveypage freerecall>
/ caption = "..."
/ fontstyle = ("Arial", -16, true, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ itemfontstyle = ("Arial", -16, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ questions = [1=freerecall]
/ showquestionnumbers = false
/ showpagenumbers = false
/ nextbuttonposition = (10,70)
/ finishlabel = "Weiter"
</surveypage>

<survey freerecall>
/ pages = [1=freerecall]
/ responsefontstyle = ("Arial", -16, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ itemfontstyle = ("Arial", -16, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ showpagenumbers = false
</survey>

I hope someone (Dave, where are you? :) could help me!

Thanks a lot and all the best,

Jakob.