Problem with structure

zsc

Dear all,

I'm almost done with my experiment (also thanks to the help of the OpenSesame community, thanks again!)

I finished programming my experiment in OpenSesame. The experiment consists of 4 different tasks. The procedure is always the same: instructions are shown for the practice block followed by the practice block. After that, participants are shown instructions for the actual experiment block, followed by the experiment block. Then this procedure is repeated for the next task. My problem is that the transition from one block to another (within the same task as well as between the tasks) doesn’t work as intended (i.e. the instruction doesn’t show up, instead it jumps right to the next block). The first time it always works but after that, the instructions don’t show up anymore. I can’t understand what the problem is, I was guided by the structure of the tutorial… I uploaded my experiment in the attachment, if someone could have a look at it and tell me what I did wrong I would be extremely thankful!

Thanks in advance!
Kind regards

zsc

Dear all,

I have tried to solve my problem over the weekend but it still won't work. When I run my experiment the first time everything works just fine but when I rerun the experiment suddenly certain instructions are skipped. I don't know what the problem is since it seems to work the first time.. If someone could help me with this problem I would be really thankful. As soon as this problem is solved I can finally begin with the experiment

Thanks in advance and kind regards

eduard

Hey,

Which version of Opensesame and which operating system do you use?

Just to be clear what the issue is, when you say "When I run my experiment the first time everything works just fine but when I rerun the experiment suddenly certain instructions are skipped", you really mean run, that is, you press the green triangle in the toolbar? Because in your first post, the issues seams to persists during one run in between different blocks. Which is it?

Thanks,
Eduard

zsc

Dear Eduard

Thanks for helping me out again! My operating system: OS X Yosemite; my version of OpenSesame: 3.1.6

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I’ll try to explain better. When I open OpenSesame and run the experiment the first time by pressing the green triangle and entering the subject number everything works as intended. The structure of my experiment is as follows:

• Sketchpad with instructions for practice task
• Practice loop with feedback
• Sketchpad with instructions for experiment loop
• Experiment loop
• Sketchpad that indicates the task is finished

After that the next task is shown with the exact same structure.

When I want to rerun the experiment (i.e. pressing the green triangle again and entering another subject number) the procedure changes: The instructions from the first task are shown followed by the practice loop with feedback. But then instead of showing the sketchpad with instructions for the experiment loop it skips right to the experiment loop and so on (it always skips the instructions). I don’t understand what the problem is because the first run always works fine but after that something goes wrong.
Does this make sense?

Thanks again for your help!
Kind regards