possible to directly access a gamepad in a sketchpad?

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• sebastiaan

  October 2017

  Hi Robin,

  You cannot do this by entering something like 'joystick' in the duration field. However, you can set the duration to 0 and then follow the sketchpad by a joystick item. That's not so much trouble either, is it?

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• Robin

  October 2017

  Hi Sebastiaan,

  Yes, that's fine. I was just interested if there is an alternative.

  Another question (please see the upload):
  I now use this joystick plug in the trial_sequence after a pause slide. I only need this pause slide 3times, so I used an 'if-statement' in the trial_sequence. This 'if-statement' is relatively complex. I only need the slides in the experimental items and only if the sentence_number-variable (which I increase by 1 every sentence) reaches a concrete number.
  It seems to me that this step slows down the program a lot. Between the button press of the gamepad_exp and the fixation cross of the next trial several seconds pass. I checked the response collection of gamepad_exp. This is fine. I assume that the data logging is also quite fast. So the only thing that lasts is the sequence itself.
  Is there a way to increase the speed here?

  

  Thanks again!

  Best,
  Robin
• sebastiaan

  October 2017

  Hi Robin,

  The if-statement itself will not slow down the program. In most cases, long inter-trial delays are due to complex sketchpads and/ or inline_scripts. To reduce this, you could try one or both of the following:

  • Select a different backend. Depending on your hardware, different backends can differ dramatically in their performance in terms of stimulus-preparation time.
  • Simplify your inline_scripts.

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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