modifying a single level of an attribute using .txt file

[mvinski]

Hi there!

I am using a text file to import levels (stimuli) for an attribute in
Eprime2, but would like one level of the attribute to show the stimuli
in a different colour. I have tried to use a command within the text
file to change the font colour (<fontcolour="purple">text</font>, but
the stimuli just appears with the command on either side when I run
the experiment.

Anyone have any other options or tips?

Thanks in advance!!

[Anne-Wil]

Hi there,


HTML tags ( <fontcolour etc) don't work in e-prime (as you discovered), eprime works with a language called e-basic. However, most of the time it won't be needed to directly use any e-basic code when building your experiment, loads of basic functions are available through the menus of the different objects.

How to best proceed kinda depends on what defines which stimulus should be in a different colour.

a) if one stimulus always has the different colour, than you could add an attribute 'fontcolour' to your list and enter the desired colour for each level in the cells, i.e. blue and purple. In the properties of the text object set the foreground colour to refer to the attribute fontcolour by entering [fontcolour]

b) if a random stimulus should be given the different colour do the same as above but create the attribute fontcolour in a seperate list that you set to random and nest it into the list with the stimuluswords

most likely you need

c) the stimulus word that needs to have a different colour is defined by 'something else' (i.e. it is the targetword). Then you can either use an attribute fontcolour as described above and "lock" it into the same list that contains the attribute wich determines which word is to be the target word. Or, lastly, most similar to what you ask for (some command) you could adjust and add the following code in an inline preceding your slide or textobject:

for a textobject within a slide:

IF c.getattrib ("attributenamethatdefinesthatawordisdifferent") =  "1" THEN

CSlideText(Slide1.States(Slide1.ActiveState).Objects("Text1")).forecolor= CColor ("red")

IF c.getattrib ("attributenamethatdefinesthatawordisdifferent") = "0" THEN

CSlideText(Slide1.States(Slide1.ActiveState).Objects("Text1")).forecolor= CColor ("blue")

End If


=> in the code you should replace the attribute name, the slidename (slide1) and the textobjectname (text1) with the actual names that you use.

for a 'standalone' textdisplay (not on a slide) I don't know the exact code but it's probably something like: textdisplay.forecolor = CColor ("blue") and you can likely find it in the e-basic help within the program.

Hope this helps,

best,

AW

[Melaina Vinski]

Thank you so very much! the stimuli was fixed, so including the attribute column worked.

Again, thank you!

M

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Melaina T. Vinski, M.Sc
PhD Candidate
Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior
Cognitive Sciences Lab
McMaster University
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