Editing a script file with a text editor and then using it with the mac version of OpenSesame

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• javi

  July 2017

  Sorry, completely stupid question, solved by just copying and pasting into the general script editor...
  I don't know how to close (and delete) this forum. I would have done it by now otherwise!
• sebastiaan

  July 2017

  Hi Javi,

  Glad you figured it out. You could even just save the script with a .osexp extension and open it.

  But of course OpenSesame is not supposed to be unworkably slow. Are you using the latest version? There have been substantial performance improvements lately. If you already are using the latest version, could you upload the experiment here, or another experiment that in your experience is unworkably slow?

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• javi

  July 2017

  Yes, I am using the lastest portable version (3.1.7 Jazzy James).
  This experiment is trying to replicate the "color vesion" in Conway et al (2017) Contribution of Implicit Sequence Learning to Spoken Language Processing.
  I am using a keyboard instead of ipads.
  It works fine (although slow) in my imac, but it crashes in a pc with the message "Out of memory"

  Any ideas?

  Thank you for your kind help!
• sebastiaan

  July 2017

  Hi Javi,

  Well the problem is clear: You have dozens of sketchpads in a sequence, and no less than 345 items in total! Don't do that to yourself—you deserve better!

  

  But it explains the memory error: All those sketchpads are loaded into memory at the same time, which can easily lead to an out-of-memory error. I assume that this error occurs when running the experiment, not when editing the experiment?

  So my main recommendation would be to avoid this kind of hyper-serial implementation, and use loops. That will make life easier, and will make OpenSesame faster.

  In the meanwhile, I'll see if I can use your experiment as testcase to find ways to optimize things further. Is there one specific operation that makes OpenSesame extremely slow? (If I edit your experiment on my laptop, it's indeed pretty slow, but not excessively so.)

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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