bypassing the file pool for exp with large number of images

Andrew

I have an experiment in which the stimuli on each trial are drawn from a set of 845 individual images.

Using the file pool to manage all 845, OSWeb crashes due to memory limitations.

Is there a way to reference files that bypasses the file pool, perhaps by specifying path directly?

Thanks.

sebastiaan

Hi Andrew,

Welcome to the forum! I'm afraid there's currently no way to do that. The images would have to be online, of course, because otherwise they cannot be shown. One solution in principle would to allow you to upload the files separately, to some server, and then include them through an <img /> tag in a sketchpad . But that currently doesn't work.

Another pragmatic solution might be to scale the images down and use a heavy form of JPG compression until they're small enough to fit in a reasonably sized experiment.

Cheers!

Sebastiaan

Andrew

Did the latter. Thanks!