E-Prime on one screen / something else on the other

[Soizic Argaud]

Hello everybody, 

(Yes, it's my third consecutive post...)

I know that it's possible with E-Prime to send one experiment on multiple screens but, if I have 2 screens with one computer, is it possible to present an experiment using E-Prime on one of the two screens and on the other one do something else (a completely different application than E-Prime) in the same time ?

Thank you very much, 

Best, 

Soizic

[Paul Groot]

This is possible, but I would strongly advise not do do this. There are several issues when running another application on the foreground on a second display:

1) EPrime uses a non-colaborative display mode (DirectX). Any mouse or keyboard activity on the second screen will cause E-Run to crash. You can easily verify this. Also, the desktop of the second screen often shifts offscreen when E-Run changes display modes.

2) Timing could become an issue because EPrime fiddles with the application priorities and windows scheduler to increase timing accuracy. The other program might respond slow.

best
paul

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[Soizic Argaud]

Thank you Paul, 

I'll take your advice !

Best, 

Soizic

2013/8/5 Paul Groot <pfc....@gmail.com>

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