form_text_input mouse-cursor

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• Roelof

  August 2017

  Hi Artur,

  I can't seem to find a solution: one line that sort seems to be handy:
  mouse().show_cursor(False)
  which hides the mouse if executed, but it seems that the mouse is called when the text display is executed, which would , I think call for some sort of a custom function, maybe @eduard knows ho this might work
• eduard

  September 2017

  Hi,

  One solution (a little ugly though), is to put a mouse response after the form. In that mouse_response change the timeout to 0 and unselect the box for Visible mouse cursor.

  Does that help?

  Eduard

  
• DPrec

  September 2017

  Hi All,

  Some time ago I had a similar problem, and (with Eduard's help) we fixed it by adding the following lines at the beginning of the the inline script (on the run sequence) that produces every trial:

      ### Hide Mouse
      ms = mouse()
      ms.show_cursor(False)
      ms.set_visible(False)
  

  If you only use the standard OpenSesame objects, you can simply add an inline_script containing the mentioned lines at the beginning of your trial loop.

  Hope that helps!
  Daniel
• eduard

  September 2017

  Brilliant!

  
• Roelof

  September 2017

  This doesn't solve the problem of the visibility of the cursor during the text input item though, when I tried these lines they only hide the mouse before or after the text input item, but not during. Guess that is not quite essential though
• eduard

  September 2017

  Oh shit,

  Yes, I haven't read the discussion properly (obviously). I'll have a look later today or tomorrow, whether it is something that can be changed.

  Sorry,
  Eduard

  
• Elliot_Luo

  September 2017

  Hi Artur,
  I had the same problem before.
  The inline script should be placed after the form containing text_input.
  Hope that works!

  Elliot
• eduard

  September 2017

  Ok,

  The only way I found to fix it, is to modify the source code of Opensesame (just writing a wrapper function does not work as the mouse object is invoked quite deep inside).

  So on your computer you have to find following file: libopensesame/widgits/_form.py. In this file you need to comment the lines 173 #self.mouse.show_cursor() and 198 #self.mouse.hide_cursor()

  This should do the trick. However, this changes the mouse visibility for all forms. Therefore, you won't see a mouse in multiple choice items as well (which could be a little annoying). I'll have a look whether the mouse functionality in forms can be improved in future releases.

  GOod luck,

  Eduard

  
• Roelof

  September 2017

  That is great Eduard, thanks for looking into it, attached a text file with the code, and full link;
  \YOUR FOLDER HERE \ opensesame_3.1.9-py2.7-win32-1\opensesame_3.1.9-py2.7-win32-1\Lib\site-packages\libopensesame\widgets
• LJGS

  April 2018

  Hi guys,

  Just checking, this isn't an issue if I have the form at the end of the experiment right? I just realised I need a quick way to patch demographic questions into my experiments, and so I am thinking I will add age/gender forms to the end. It's an eye-tracking experiment and I don't have a tracker with me so I can't check on my own if the form introduces problems with the cursor (mouse pilot makes the cursor visible anyway)

  thanks