[solved] opensesame run - minimal pack

drorgarbi

hi
I want to run a battery on computers that doesn't have opensesame on them
what is the minimal pack I need to add to the exp files?
thank you

sebastiaan

Hi Dror,

You can just include the 'no installation required (.zip)' version of OpenSesame:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/getting-opensesame/download/

If space is an issue, you can strip this package down even further yourself, by deleting the templates, icon theme (basically everything from the resources folder except the .ttf files), and qt libraries.

Cheers!
Sebastiaan

drorgarbi

thank you
space is indeed the issue.
qt libraries is libqtopensesame?
I tried to delete it but when I tried to run an exp an error regarding fixation_dot module appeared.

also, is there a way that the participant wont be able to access the files except the .bat file? - compiling, password protection or any other idea?

Dror

sebastiaan

thank you space is indeed the issue. qt libraries is libqtopensesame? I tried to delete it but when I tried to run an exp an error regarding fixation_dot module appeared.

Ow right, there is a minimal (and unnecessary) dependency on Qt in the runtime as well. But I don't think it's useful to remove this anyway. If you remove the icons (resources/theme/default) and templates (resources/templates) you will have removed the main things. Most of the other space is taken the Python environment, which you cannot remove (or strip) unless you exactly which modules you are using. OpenSesame is simply a quite heavy program, becomes it comes with a full Python environment.

also, is there a way that the participant wont be able to access the files except the .bat file? - compiling, password protection or any other idea?

This is more of a Windows issue, but my guess is no. If the .bat file can find the experiment, then so can the participant. You could give things read-only permissions, though. Then at least the participants cannot mess things up.

Cheers,
Sebastiaan