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OpenSesame 3.1.0 "Jazzy James" has been released!

edited July 2016 in OpenSesame

I'm very happy to announce the availability of OpenSesame 3.1.0 Jazzy James. This is a major new release that brings many features and improvements. OpenSesame 3.1 is fully backwards compatible with 3.0.

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Important changes in OpenSesame 3.1

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A new look!

OpenSesame has a new icon theme, based on Moka by Sam Hewitt. In addition, the user interface has been redesigned based on consistent human-interface guidelines. We hope you like the new look as much as we do!

A redesigned loop

The loop is now easier to use, and allows you to constrain randomization; this makes it possible, for example, to prevent the same stimulus from occurring twice in a row.

For more information, see:

Coroutines: doing things in parallel

The coroutines plugin is now included by default. coroutines allows you to run multiple other items in parallel; this makes it possible, for example, to continuously collect key presses while presenting a series of sketchpads.

For more information, see:

Open Science Framework integration

You can now log into the Open Science Framework (OSF) from within OpenSesame, and effortlessly synchronize experiments and data between your computer and the OSF. Thanks to the Center for Open Science for supporting this functionality!

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A responses object

There is a new standard Python object: responses. This keeps track of all responses that have been collected during the experiment.

For more information, see:

Comments

  • edited July 2016

    Congrats Sebastiaan on this release that has some great new stuff! ;)

    Just a few side notes:

    media_player_mpy

    This release also includes a completely new media player on which we have been working for a while: media_player_mpy. You find it in the item toolbar in the category visual stimuli:

    This version should work more reliably on all major operating systems (yes, also on Mac OS this time) than the other solutions that were available before (vlc, gst). We have tested the player thoroughly, but you may still experience some errors or unintended behavior (it is the player's first ever release after all). Please report these at the issue tracker on Github. In any case, I'd love to hear your experiences and suggestions on this new player after you have given it a spin.

    Some important notes:

    • The first time you use media_player_mpy, it will automatically download a program called ffmpeg. This program performs the actual decoding of the video files that you play. While ffmpeg is downloading (which may take a while), your experiment may give the impression to be stuck, but rest assured, it will continue after the download is finished. We hope to integrate ffmpeg into the next releases so this initial separate download will no longer be necessary.
    • media_player_mpy offers can use three different modules for playing the audio stream of a video. They can be selected from the sound renderer dropdown box on the player's configuration page. We have had varying experiences on different computers and operating systems with the same sound renderer, so you will have to test which one works best for you. At the moment, we think sounddevice (which is selected by default) is the most reliable, but do try the other options if this one causes problems or choppy sound playback.

    Multiprocessing works on Mac OS X

    Due to a new way of creating the Mac OS X app, it now also supports multiprocessing. This option can be selected on the preferences panel in the runner section.

    Multiprocessing increases the stability of OpenSesame by running the experiments in a separate process. Everytime an experiment is run, it starts with a clean slate of memory. If an experiment does crash, it no longer drags down OpenSesame with it entirely.

    Hopefully you like all these new goodies!

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  • edited 9:22AM

    Fantastic - thank you Sebastiaan et al.!
    It looks really awesome. I'm particularly delighted with coroutines and integration with OSF. Well done, and thanks for all of your hard work.

    Neon

  • edited July 2016

    Unfortunately, I could not run it on my PC (Windows 8.1). It just did not start.
    Had to downgrade to 3.07((

    Any suggestions?

  • edited 9:22AM

    Any suggestions?

    Yes! Please provide more details! What exactly happens when you start OpenSesame? Which package of OpenSesame are you using? And which version of Windows 8.1 are you using?

  • edited 9:22AM

    Hello, I started working with Open Sesame a about a month ago and I find it extremely useful! I just upgraded to OS 3.1.0 and tried to run an experiment that was built on version 3.0. All is well, except for when I try to change the font to Arial (it has the characters I need, which are: ț, ș, â, ă, î; this worked perfectly in OS 3.0) by going to 'other' fonts. I receive an error (see image). Do I need to upload a .ttf to the file pool or is this a bug? Thanks so much! Cheers!
    image

  • edited 9:22AM

    @Raluca_Szekely This is indeed a bug--thanks for pointing it out. We'll push out a bugfix release soon, but for now you can:

    Cheers!
    Sebastiaan

  • edited 9:22AM

    Great! Thanks a lot for the quick reply! Cheers! - Raluca

  • edited July 2016

    sebastiaan,

    The package is default -- opensesame_3.1.0-py2.7-win32-1.exe;

    The version of Windows is 8.1 Pro 64-bit (all updates);

    CPU -- Intel I5-2500K;

    RAM -- 8 Gb

    When I double click on the shortcut nothing happens.
    The process cannot be found in the task manager.
    I tried starting it as administrator, tried different 'compatibility' options, but nothing helped.
    3.07 is still working fine.

  • edited 9:22AM

    When I double click on the shortcut nothing happens. The process cannot be found in the task manager. I tried starting it as administrator, tried different 'compatibility' options, but nothing helped. 3.07 is still working fine.

    In the OpenSesame program folder (usually something like c:\Program files\OpenSesame), you will see two versions of opensesame.exe:

    • c:\Program files\OpenSesame\opensesame.exe
    • c:\Program files\OpenSesame\Scripts\opensesame.exe

    If you try to launch these directly, does either of them work? And, if so, which one?

  • edited 9:22AM

    Neither((

  • edited 9:22AM

    Neither((

    Ok, let's find out what the problem is here. If you start OpenSesame from a command prompt, you should be able to see any error messages. To do so:

    1. From the start menu, run cmd.exe
    2. Go to the OpenSesame folder by typing cd "\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame", where you may have to change the folder so that it matches the folder where you have installed OpenSesame.
    3. Now run python Scripts\safelaunch-opensesame.py

    This will probably crash, but at least you should see some informative output. Please post that here! This will help us to resolve the issue.

  • edited July 2016

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  • edited 9:22AM

    Hi,

    I am running an experiment that was built with OpenSesame 3.0 on the new OpenSesame 3.1 release. Previously, I had used run if [response] = None to display items if the participant did not provide a response. This worked fine on 3.0, but seems not to display for 3.1. I noticed there were some changes to the response function, but it appeared that if a participant did not provide a response, then var.response and var.response_time would both be None. Is there a different way this should be coded in 3.1 that I'm missing?

    Thanks for the help,
    Kristin

  • edited July 2016

    @ghosty Thanks for digging into this. Apparently there is a problem with PyQt4, which is the graphical toolkit used by OpenSesame. The exact error is (again) hidden. Would you mind trying the following?

    1. Step 1 as before
    2. Step 2 as before
    3. Now run python (by itself, without any arguments)
    4. In the Python that opens, run:
    import PyQt4
    from PyQt4 import QtCore
    from PyQt4 import QtGui
    

    This should hopefully show the exact problem that prevents PyQt4 from loading.

  • edited 9:22AM

    I did not close the previous Command prompt window, so I just continued typing:

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  • edited 9:22AM

    @ghosty Thanks! This information is really helpful. I'm not sure we'll be able to resolve it, but at least we have an idea where the problem comes from!

  • edited 9:22AM

    @knmeyer

    I am running an experiment that was built with OpenSesame 3.0 on the new OpenSesame 3.1 release. Previously, I had used run if [response] = None to display items if the participant did not provide a response. This worked fine on 3.0, but seems not to display for 3.1. I noticed there were some changes to the response function, but it appeared that if a participant did not provide a response, then var.response and var.response_time would both be None. Is there a different way this should be coded in 3.1 that I'm missing?

    This is indeed a bug in the new way that responses are processed. We'll fix it in the upcoming bug-fix release, but for now you can work around the issue using the following run-if statement:

    =var.response in [None, 'None']
    

    Technically, this is a Python-style statement that checks whether the response is the string 'None', as it should be, or the special None value, which is shouldn't be (but currently is).

  • edited July 2016

    sebastiaan, Thank you so much for your attention to my problem. I really hope it will help.

    Please, also notice, that now some part of documentation has disappeared and can be viewed from Google cache only. Here is an example:
    http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/miscellaneous/timing/

This discussion has been closed.

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