Item "form_text_input" does not appear when running an OpenSesame experiment via JATOS

AlexisHancevich

Hi there,

My name is Alexis. I´m a Psychology Student and I´m trying to run an experiment online for my Final Degree Project, which I built on OpenSesame (PsychoPy background). The thing is, running works perfectly on OpenSesame, but once the file is imported and ran in JATOS, item "form_text_input" does not appear on the screen, so the experiment cannot continue and gets frozen. Just to clarify, is not that it crashes o freezes directly, but since collecting the answer is a must to advance on the experiment, not showing the form text input makes the experiment stop in the previous sketchpad.

I wonder if this is an OSWeb or a JATOS issue? How can I deal with it?

(OpenSesame version: Windows - 3.3.5 // JATOS version: Bundled with Java 3.5.8)

Thank you in advance for your help. This is my first time posting on a forum, so sorry in advance for possible misunderstandings or lacks of relevant information.

elisa

H Alexis,

This is most likely an OSWeb issue: not all features supported by opensesame are also included in OSWeb, because there are two different underlying programming languages.

Maybe @Daniel can give you more details

Best

Elisa

AlexisHancevich

Hi Elisa,

Thank you for responding so quickly. It's just like you said. I've found another forum thread that explains that the "input_text_form" item is not compatible with OSWeb, so the problem itself is the compatibility between OpenSesame and OSWeb, and has nothing to do with JATOS.

Do you know where or to whom can I ask for an alternative way to collect a similar response? (text form, so I can use it for a denomination task)

Alexis

ethanweed

I have been using the solution posted by Sebastian here as a work-around for text entry in OSWeb:

https://forum.cogsci.nl/discussion/4737/text-input-form-for-use-with-jatos

/Ethan