mouse visible only in some routines?

[susan]

Hello

I'm running an experiment where people give 4 responses during 1
trial. I'd like the mouse cursor only to be visible during the
routines when pts are giving a response, does anyone know if this is
possible?

If not, is it possible to move the cursor to a particular position at
the start of a routine - I want to avoid pts being able to see which
response they gave earlier on in the trial, which they can when the
mouse cursor doesn't move from last response.

Thanks for any help!

Susan

[Jonathan Peirce]

PsychoPy's Window object has a method called setMouseVisible() and a window is created (called win) at the beginning of all builder scripts (compile to a script to have a look at what is generated).

So I think you'll be able to add somewhere in your experiment a code component that does this at then beginning of each repeat:
win.setMouseVisible(True)
or this:
win.setMouseVisible(False)

Maybe you want that to be based on some variable (e.g. in your excel file have a column of 1's and 0's for a variable called mouseVis):

if mouseVis:
    win.setMouseVisible(True)
else:
    win.setMouseVisible(False)

make sense?
Jon

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[susan]

Thanks for the response, I'll give that a try!

Susan

On Mar 6, 6:07 pm, Jonathan Peirce <jonathan.pei...@nottingham.ac.uk>
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