I'm new to Inquisit and I have a question about embedding an image. My experiment involves a "stressed" and a "non-stressed" condition, in which the "stressed group" takes a typing test with an unreasonably short timer (60 seconds) and the "non-stressed" group takes the same typing test with a longer one (2 and a half min). In addition to setting the allotted times as /timeout, I want to include an actual visual timer for the participants to see. I thought the best way to go about this would be to make .gif animations of the timers and embed them within the page, but I can't seem to get them to show up (the 60 second timer .gif for both passages for the stressed group, and the 2.5 min timer .gif for both passages for the non-stressed group). Any help would be appreciated!
<expt>
/ subjects = (1 of 2)
/ blocks = [1=ac.test.type60]
</expt>
<expt>
/ subjects = (2 of 2)
/ blocks = [1=ac.test.type150]
</expt>
<data>
/columns=[date, time, build, subject, trialcode, blockcode, blocknum, trialnum, latency, response, pretrialpause,
posttrialpause, trialtimeout, blocktimeout, correct, stimulusitem, stimulusnumber,
display.height, display.width,
script.starttime, script.elapsedtime]
/format=tab
</data>
<instruct>
/windowsize = (80%, 80%)
</instruct>
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blocks
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<block ac.test.type60>
/preinstructions = (ac.test.type.p1)
/trials=[2,4=ac.test.type60; 1,3=ac.test.type.nexttrial]
</block>
<block ac.test.type150>
/preinstructions = (ac.test.type.p1)
/trials=[2,4=ac.test.type150; 1,3=ac.test.type.nexttrial]
</block>
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ac.test.type
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<page ac.test.type.p1>In this task, you’ll be racing the clock.^^We’ll give you passages to retype; when you hit enter, a timer will come up indicating how many seconds you have to type the passage.^^Type as much of the passage as you can before the timer runs out.^^If you finish before the timer runs out, please click the "Next" button.</page>
<openended ac.test.type60>
/stimulustimes=[0=ac.test.type60]
/charlimit=2000
/linelength = 80
/timeout=60000
/position = (50%, 75%)
/size = (70%, 40%)
/multiline=true
</openended>
<openended ac.test.type150>
/stimulustimes=[0=ac.test.type150]
/charlimit=2000
/linelength = 80
/timeout=150000
/position = (50%, 75%)
/size = (70%, 40%)
/multiline=true
</openended>
<item 60secondtimer>
/1 = "60secondtimer.gif"
</item>
<picture 60secondtimer>
/items = 60secondtimer
</picture>
<item 150secondtimer>
/1 = "150secondtimer.gif"
</item>
<picture 150secondtimer>
/items = 150secondtimer
</picture>
<text ac.test.type60>
/items=ac.test.type60
/position=(50%,20%)
/select=sequence
/size=(69%,10%)
/fontstyle = ("sans-serif", 12pt, false)
/hjustify=left
</text>
<text ac.test.type150>
/items=ac.test.type150
/position=(50%,20%)
/select=sequence
/size=(69%,10%)
/fontstyle = ("sans-serif", 12pt, false)
/hjustify=left
</text>
<item ac.test.type60>
/1="All the sound reasons ever given for conserving other natural resources apply to the conservation of wildlife, and with three-fold power. When a spendthrift squanders his capital it is lost to him and his heirs; yet it goes somewhere else. When a nation allows any one kind of natural resource to be squandered it must suffer a real, positive loss; yet substitutes of another kind can generally be found. But when wildlife is squandered it does not go elsewhere, like squandered money; it cannot possibly be replaced by any substitute, as some inorganic resources are: it is simply an absolute, dead loss, gone beyond even the hope of recall."
/2="The autobiographer has two qualifications of supreme importance in all literary work. He is writing about a topic in which he is keenly interested, and about a topic upon which he is the highest living authority. It may be reckoned, too, that an autobiography, alone of all books, may be more valuable in proportion to the amount of misrepresentation which it contains. We do not wonder when a man gives a false character to his neighbor, but it is always curious to see how a man contrives to present a false testimonial to himself. It is pleasant to be admitted behind the scenes and trace the growth of that singular phantom which is the man’s own shadow cast upon the colored and distorting mists of memory."
</item>
<item ac.test.type150>
/1="All the sound reasons ever given for conserving other natural resources apply to the conservation of wildlife, and with three-fold power. When a spendthrift squanders his capital it is lost to him and his heirs; yet it goes somewhere else. When a nation allows any one kind of natural resource to be squandered it must suffer a real, positive loss; yet substitutes of another kind can generally be found. But when wildlife is squandered it does not go elsewhere, like squandered money; it cannot possibly be replaced by any substitute, as some inorganic resources are: it is simply an absolute, dead loss, gone beyond even the hope of recall."
/2="The autobiographer has two qualifications of supreme importance in all literary work. He is writing about a topic in which he is keenly interested, and about a topic upon which he is the highest living authority. It may be reckoned, too, that an autobiography, alone of all books, may be more valuable in proportion to the amount of misrepresentation which it contains. We do not wonder when a man gives a false character to his neighbor, but it is always curious to see how a man contrives to present a false testimonial to himself. It is pleasant to be admitted behind the scenes and trace the growth of that singular phantom which is the man’s own shadow cast upon the colored and distorting mists of memory."
</item>
<trial ac.test.type.nexttrial>
/stimulustimes=[0=ac.test.type.nexttrial]
/validresponse=(28)
</trial>
<text ac.test.type.nexttrial>
/items= ("Press [ENTER] when you are ready for the next trial")
/position=(50%,40%)
</text>
<defaults>
/ fontstyle = ("Arial", 2.5%, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ txcolor = black
/ txbgcolor = white
/ windowsize = (99%, 99%)
</defaults>