Not enough space for consent form information

ymori

I am having difficulty fitting all of the necessary information for my consent form, and do not know how to resolve this issue.

First, I used the simple consent form plug-in and manually edited the script to have the following sections (or widgets) in this order:

• a title [form_title]
• a long section of consent related information (spanning 30 lines in the script) [form_text]
• a sentence about providing consent [consent_text]
• a group of checkboxes labeled "I Agree" or "I do not agree" ([accept_text] and [decline_text])
• another section of short text regarding permission to data share (spanning 2 lines in the script) [sharedata_text]
• another group of checkboxes labeled "Yes" or "No" ([acceptsharedata_text] and [declinesharedata_text])

However, I am not able to see all the text for the consent form, the checkboxes are overlapping on the text, and the second short section of text is completely overwritten. The widgets should not have overlapped based on the location that I specified for each widget.

set rows "1;6;1;1;1;1"
set margins "25;25;25;25"
set cols "2;2"
widget 0 0 2 1 label text="[form_title]"
widget 0 1 2 1 label center=no text="[form_text]"
widget 0 2 2 1 label text="[consent_text]"
widget 0 3 1 1 checkbox group= "1" group text="[accept_text]"
widget 1 3 1 1 checkbox group= "1" group text="[decline_text]"
widget 0 4 2 1 label text="[sharedata_text]"
widget 0 5 1 1 checkbox group="2" group text="[acceptsharedata_text]"
widget 1 5 1 1 checkbox group="2" group text="[declinesharedata_text]

I then thought this issue had to do with the simple consent form plug-in, so I used the same script in a form base plug-in, but this didn't make a difference. I also wrote the script in Python code and still had the same issues.

I have also changed the font size to 12, changed the theme to "plain" and changed the spacing between the widgets to 5, none of which made a difference.

It is important for me to include all of these widgets, preferably on one page.

Is there a maximum number of rows that the window is able to accommodate/what is the size of the window with which we can work with?

sebastiaan

Hi @ymori ,

I'm not sure what your consent form looks like now, but one thing that comes to mind is that the resolution of the experiment is low (1024 × 768 by default), and that, as a result of this, the consent form only uses a limited part in the center of the display. If this is the case, then increasing the experiment resolution, ideally to the display resolution of the monitor, should give you much more space.

Cheers!

Sebastiaan