Turning letters into * in text_input_form

Rudi

Dear Sebastian,

we want to programm an experiment concerning the production effect. For that, we need the participants to either type a word or say it out loud.

For the typing we were using the test input form. But we don´t want the participants to see the full word when they type it, but would like them to see the letter only for a short period and then have the letter turn into a * (similar like passworts).

Alternatively, we thought about changing the letters while they are typing to a different language (consisting of signs) or something like that, so that the participants can see, that they are typing but do not see the letters.

Do you have an idea how we could do that?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

Rudi

eduard

Hi Rudi,

Sounds like fun. Even though certainly possible, there is unfortunately no out-of-the-box solution for this in Opensesame. So you would need to write some custom code to make it work. As the text input form is rather inflexible when it comes to customization, I would recommend implementing your own tool for that in an inline_script. I attach an example of a basic version of your task.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need more pointers.

Eduard

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