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It seems more likely that when you pull the mouse, the mouse coordinates never actually reach the border of the screen. Try the following:

Do a search & replace in the script and replace all instances of "display.height" with "display.canvasheight" (without the double-quotes).

Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. I searched the script for "display.height", however, this command does not appear. There is one instance /Maxheight = display.canvasheight, but that´s it. Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks,
Charlotte

Okay, thanks. We need to figure out what's happening on those systems then. For background: The script determines when a stimulus has been "fully zoomed in" based on the mouse coordinates:

<trial increase>
...

/branch = [if (trial.increase.responsey >= values.maxheight-1)
                {values.mouse_y = trial.increase.responsey; values.endtime = script.elapsedtime; values.finalresponse = "PULL"; trial.endincrease}]
...
</trial>

My theory still is that this just never happens because -- for some reason -- the mouse never reaches the required coordinates for the above conditiont to fire:

trial.increase.responsey >= values.maxheight-1

There are a couple of things you can do:
- For a quick fix, you can try relaxing the condition by say doing something like

trial.increase.responsey >= values.maxheight-6

- To really figure out what happens, you would have to modify the script and log the actual mouse coordinates (change the /recorddata attributes in the various increase / decrease trials to 'true', log the respective responsey and mousey properties to the data file, log display.height and display.canvasheight). Those would show which coordinates the mouse is actually able to reach on those systems. See e.g. this thread for a similar problem: https://www.millisecond.com/forums/FindPost17073.aspx
- As for what prevents the mouse from working properly on those systems, there are a couple of possibilities: You may have some piece of software installed that messes with the mouse / remaps its coordinates. If the systems have multiple monitors with different sizes attached, that can also mess things up.

Let me know what you find regarding the mouse coordinates and we'll take it from there.

Hello, I write in this topic because I seem to have exactly the same issue.

I'm using an AAT module on Inquisit 5 on a Lenovo Thinkvision with Windows 10.

The push action works properly, i.e. the stimulus gets smaller and smaller and then disappears.
The pull action does not, i.e. the stimulus gets bigger but never disappears.

Just like the previous user I already have the display.canvasheight instead of the display.height.

I tried relaxing the condition, from the original 1 I tried to change it up and up up to 200. Nothing helps.

Something weird: I also tried the joystick version and with that module I seem to have this same issue but with both actions (i.e. I can zoom the picture in and out with the joystick but the picture never disappears).

Any suggestion?

So what are the coordinates the mouse returns?

How can I know that?

You would have to log that information. See here: https://www.millisecond.com/forums/FindPost17073.aspx

In short: Set /recorddata=true for all <trial> elements in the script and then log values.mouse_y, trial.increase.responsey, trial.decrease.responsey, display.height, and display.canvasheight to the data file via the <data> element's /columns element.

Please find attached three log files.
The "complete" one includes all the experiment I am planning, for each item I tried to go to the down limit before going to the upper one in order to switch to the next stimulus.
The "downup" file consists in one only item in which I went down and up to the limits until switching to the following one.
The "down" file only includes the down limit.

I also include the syntax file. It is a modified version of the AAT, similar to the one used by Huijding et al., 2009.

Thank you!!

I asked you to also log display.canvasheight. That's not in those data files, only display.height is. Could you please provide data including the canvas height? Thanks.

P.S.: You don't need to conduct any additional full test runs for that -- just tell me what the display.canvasheight property returns when you run the script.