OpenSesame 2.9.5 "Hesitant Heisenberg" released!

sebastiaan

I'm happy to announce the release of OpenSesame 2.9.5 "Hesitant Heisenberg". This is the 5th maintenance release in the 2.9 series. It contains many bugfixes and minor improvements, and is a recommended upgrade for everyone.

As always, you can get your fix from here:

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

Release notes

OpenSesame 2.9.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 2.9 series. If you are upgrading from 2.8.3 or earlier, please also read the 2.9.0 release notes.

Credits

Thanks to Diederick Niehorster (@dcnieho) for his code contributions to the forms. Thanks to Daniel Schreij (@dschreij) and @donal-s for their contributions to the media_player_vlc plug-in.

Changelog

Bugs fixed

• Don't delete an item when a drop is canceled
• Remove all references to deprecated keyboard.to_chr()
• Remove empty response options in form_multiple_choice
• Also rename and delete files in fallback pool folder
• Don't crash on invalid fixdot style in sketchpad canvas
• Don't crash when experiment-start item is invalid
• Fix a bug in image form widget that prevented dubious images from being shown
• Don't (re)decode unicode exception messages
• Convert delete key to key name in legacy keyboard back-end
• Re-initialize numpy random seed on experiment start
• Ensure proper encoding of image paths in legacy back-end
• Don't crash on variably defined font sizes in sketchpad widget
• Don't crash when pygame.PixelArray doesn't work
• Don't crash when loading plugin's from bytecode
• Don't crash on variably defined cycles in loop item
• Don't prepend underscore when renaming an item to the same name

Improvements

• Explicitly notify of variable sequence preparation time
• Add form template
• Add show_cursor option to touch_response plug-in
• Ask for confirmation before replacing a loop's item to run
• Show the number of unused items in the overview area
• Warn when there are multiple unlinked loggers
• Warn when the file pool is too large
• Clean up old file pool when opening experiment
• Clean up temporary file pool when saving experiment
• Allow cursor movement in text-input form widget
• Accept numeric enter in text-input form widget
• Add autorun functionality to Android runtime
• Open tab of newly created linked and unlinked copies

Windows packaging

OpenSesame 2.9.5
Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:03:49) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
OpenCV is not available
OpenCV2 2.4.10
QProgedit 2.1.0
Expyriment  (Revision ; Python 2.7.8)
NumPy 1.9.1
PIL is available (version is unknown)
PsychoPy 1.80.05-opensesame-1
PyAudio 0.2.8
PyGame 1.9.1release
PyGaze 0.5.0~opensesame3
Pyglet 1.1.4
PyOpenGL 3.1.0
PyQt 4.11.3
PySerial 2.7
python-bidi 0.3.4
python-markdown 2.5.2
SciPy 0.14.0