Adding dialogue input text boxes into a psychopy experiment?

[Jeremy Ward]

I am using psychopy and python to program a simple psychology experiment. Basically, a foreign word appears on the screen for 8 seconds, followed by 5 seconds of a translation of that word. During the 8 second exposure to the foreign word, participants are instructed to type in a guess as to what the translation might be. When they start typing, their text appears underneath the foreign word that is being displayed on the screen.

Here is my question; how can include a dialogue, input text box in my experiment underneath the foreign word where they type and their letters appear, rather than just appearing beneath the word with no border or boundary?

[Oliver Clark]

Hi Jeremy,

By setting fullScreen to False and allowGui to True when the window is set, you can use a dialogue box to present words and collect responses.

In a code component set:

Begin Experiment:

from psychopy import qtgui as gui

Begin Routine:

yourDictName = {'foreignWord':word, 'translation':''} #create a dictionary for the dlgBox to draw from - the entry translation takes words from a conditions file.

dictDlg = gui.DlgFromDict(dictionary = yourDictName, title = 'Translation', fixed = ['foreignWord'])

if dictDlg.OK:

    continueRoutine = False

End Routine:

trials.addData('translation', info['translation']) #adds participant's translation to the csv file - trials is the loop to which the conditions file is associated

End result is:

However - I can't find an option to set the position of the dialogue box - so it doesn't appear centred - anyone else got an idea on this?

Cheers,

Oli