bug in form ( mouse clicks)

dsilva.mari

Hi,

I made a custom form, and I started running my pilot, and everything was running perfectly until today. I display 12 boxes with a letter in each of them, and when a user clicks on the letter, it displays the letter to them. The form is sometimes returning two letters even though the user just clicks on one. Is there any way to fix this?

Best,

Mariana

sebastiaan

Hi Mariana,

Unless someone on this forum is clairvoyant (I'm not), you'll have to attach the experiment itself in order for us to see what's going on!

Cheers,
Sebastiaan

dsilva.mari

Hi Sebastian, thanks for replying !-- I actually created this form based on a custom form you made for someone previously( I will try to find the link to it again). It is an operation span task - and I have been running into problems in my inline script entitled display12letters It appears in the experiment 3 times as a linked copy - in the first, third, and fourth sequences.

sebastiaan

Right, I remember now. It works fine me, as far as I can tell. What exactly do you expect to happen, and what exactly goes wrong?

dsilva.mari

Well, it was working perfectly - but then yesterday I had it go wrong with 2 participants - in some trials, when they clicked on a letter ( doesn't matter which letter really), two would return on the screen. Now I am testing it again too, and it is working, but I am afraid that when I actually run the experiment, I will have problems again. Also, sometimes, mainly in the experimental sequence, the form with all the letter buttons would appear with a J already displayed on the bottom ( for some reason it was always a J) . Thanks!

sebastiaan

Your experiment is a bit hard to understand in its entirety, but I'm pretty sure there's no problem with the form script itself. Didn't the participants simply double-click on the letters? Or maybe the mouse is broken so that is occasionally gives false clicks?

I would first try to replicate the problem yourself (on the lab computer but without participants) and try to figure out if it could be something trivial like that. If you're absolutely sure that it's something with the code, then we can go back to that.

dsilva.mari

All right, thanks -- I was actually hoping it was a problem with the mouse, since I never had this problem before with the form in the last two months. I will keep testing it the next week in multiple computers.
Thank you!