Having text as input

[gilis]

Dear all,

I have an experiment in which participants input is text (i.e.,
words), I wonder how can I set the program to receive this input
without using text box..Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Gili

[Paul Groot]

Hi Gili,

You can any E-Object (i.e. Slide, ImageDisplay, TextDisplay, ...) with
an input mask that accepts multiple responses. Just add a keyboard
device to the object and click the advanced button. Then enter the
maximum characters allowed and a termination response (i.e. {ENTER})
and you're done. If you also would like to have visual feedback of the
typed characters then you should add a display object to the echo tab.

best,
paul

2011/8/7 gilis <gila...@gmail.com>:

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[gilis]

Sure Paul, and thanks very much-however, I forgot to add one detail
that change the entire question, I want Eprime to receive text which
is not written in Latin letters..Now how can I do that ?

On Aug 8, 10:22 am, Paul Groot <pfc.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gili,
>
> You can any E-Object (i.e. Slide, ImageDisplay, TextDisplay, ...) with
> an input mask that accepts multiple responses. Just add a keyboard
> device to the object and click the advanced button. Then enter the
> maximum characters allowed and a termination response (i.e. {ENTER})
> and you're done. If you also would like to have visual feedback of the
> typed characters then you should add a display object to the echo tab.
>
> best,
> paul
>

> 2011/8/7 gilis <gilads...@gmail.com>:

[Paul Groot]

Well, using non-ASCII text is unexplored territory for me, so I'm
afraid I can't help here...
I know EP2 has some support for displaying UNICODE text, but I guess
the interpretation of magic keystrokes for non-ASCII characters is not
build-in.

2011/8/8 gilis <gila...@gmail.com>:

[gilis]

Thanks anyway :)

On Aug 8, 4:15 pm, Paul Groot <pfc.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, using non-ASCII text is unexplored territory for me, so I'm
> afraid I can't help here...
> I know EP2 has some support for displaying UNICODE text, but I guess
> the interpretation of magic keystrokes for non-ASCII characters is not
> build-in.
>

> 2011/8/8 gilis <gilads...@gmail.com>:

[Peter Quain]

Searched my e-prime list mailbox for old question about 'Hebrew' fonts:

Thread-Url: http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/t/46ff1dc45ff81cb2

-------DKM's reply includes PST reply to poster ------------------------------
Yoed,

Thanks for getting and posting the reply from PST. I wonder if any
of the alternatives to E-Prime (e.g., Presentation,
http://www.neurobs.com ) could do a better job of handling non-English input?

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

>i have actually taken this up with PST and late last night i got an
>answer - the short version of it is no. attaching below the answer i
>got from them, thanks everyone for their help in this issue!
>
>++++
>
>Yoed,
>
>Are you using E-Prime v1.x or E-Prime 2.0? While E-Prime 2.0 is
>supported by the English/Western European versions of Windows XP and
>Vista, this really only applies to text that is displayed by the
>objects. That is, while the "Text" property of a TextDisplay will
>accept foreign characters, the other properties (including .Input
>and its related echo properties) will not. All non-English
>characters or accents will go unrecognized by E-Prime in the
>responses and in the text that is echoed to the screen.
>
>E-Prime 2.0 has resolved this to some degree by allowing non-English
>fonts to appear as responses in the data file (i.e., UNICODE fonts
>are permitted). However, the echo client will still only display
>English and the responses themselves will still be based on the
>QWERTY keyboard. You could get around this by manually echoing the
>subject's responses to the screen. For example, you could take the
>subject's input and then convert it to Hebrew in script, and then
>display this on screen (e.g., if the semicolon key is pressed,
>convert this to a specific character and display it on screen, etc).
>However, this can be fairly script intensive and would require that
>the Hebrew characters appear correctly in TextDisplay objects and/or
>Slide objects and appear correctly in InLine objects. If you are
>interested, I would recommend taking a look at
><http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/samples.asp?Mode=View&SampleID=47>SAMPLE:Process
>Responses Template for an example of how to change what is displayed
>on screen based on the subject's responses.
>
>Please let me know if you have any further questions.
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