changing text colour as a variable

erogers

Hi,
I am trying to set up an experiment on Opensesame and I have only had a little bit of practice. I have two variables: words and colours. I want the words to appear in three different colours. I have got the words to appear one after the other but don't know how to get them to appear in the different colours. I have been told to change the script but still not sure how and where to do this. Can someone give me some really clear instructions please.
Esther

eduard

Hi esther,

What are you using to present your words? sketchpads or inline_scripts? If it is inline_scripts, you can simply use the color keyword: canvas.text('this is some text', color= 'green'). If you use sketchpads you can adjust the color in the script_view. I could try to explain it, but without seeing examples it is a little abstract. However, you can just look at the step-by-step tutorial. In step 6, they explain how you can generically set features of sketchpad items to vary across trials. So if use it as a template, you can generalize to your particular example.

Let me know if you need more help.

Eduard