Expyriment 0.7.0 and Expyriment Android Runtime 0.1.0 released!

[Florian Krause]

Expyriment 0.7.0 has just been released! This is a feature release, so please update!.

We are furthermore very pleased to announce the first official release of our Expyriment Android Runtime - an application that allows you to run you Expyriment scripts on Android devices!

You can download the new version from www.expyriment.org/getit.

New Features:

- new feature in testsuite: Font viewer 

- new extra stimulus: stimuli.extras.RandomDotKinematogram

- new timer and experiment clock to ensure monotonic timing

- Clock: new method (static) monotonic_time (this time should be always used)

- data_preprocessing: new exclusion rule, which allows removing trials

  depending on their deviation (std) from mean (e.g., 'RT > 1.5*std')

- improvements for OS X in get_system_info()

- proper unicode handling: use unicode strings whenever unicode characters

  are needed

- files: the character encoding is now written to files and used when opening

  them

- FreeFonts are now part of the Expyriment distribution to guarantee the same

  fonts across platforms

- new io class: TouchScreenButtonBox

- new options for control.start(): skip_ready_screen and subject_id to start

  with predefined subject id

- experiments now also have a global mouse object: experiment.mouse 

- new property for io.Mouse: is_visible

- Secure hashes for experiments help to ensure that the correct version is

  running in the lab. Secure hashes will be displayed at the start and printed

  in all output files as well as in the command line output.

  

Fixed:

- experiment clock now with monotonic timing

- bug in extras.CedrusResponseDevice

- several bugs in documentation

- incompatibility with multiprocessing.Pool

- bug in Visual.add_noise()

- bug in io.SerialPort.read_line()

- bugfix: stimuli.shapes can now be used as background stimuli for io.TextInput

  & io.TextMenu

Changed:

- several Android related changes (have no impact for normal use of Expyriment)

- overlapping methods of stimuli now work on absolute_position by default