Using spacebar to accept and close a "text_input" form

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• labovich

  March 2018

  and one more thing: I need the spacebar to be pressed when the target slide appears.
  Is there a way to define "run if spacebar is pressed"?
• eduard

  March 2018

  Hi Tali,

  Is there a way to define "run if spacebar is pressed"?

  in a run if field, probably not, but in an inline_script you could implement a while loop that runs until a key has been pressed, and while it has not been released. Unfortunately, this is not exactly "with as less coding as possible"

  With the other question, I can't really help you. maybe you can Monkey patch the form execution function so that accepts also space presses, but for that you need to understand how Opensesame runs forms (better than I do). Maybe @sebastiaan has a nifty solution for that?

  Eduard

  
• labovich

  March 2018

  Thanks for responding Eduard.... This is one of these times when I wish I had some computer science knowledge

  What if I design a form by myself? can I use anything other than enter ?
• eduard

  March 2018

  Hi,

  If you are willing to use a mouse, you can disable the return key, and use a next button instead?

  
• sebastiaan

  March 2018

  The only real solution that I can think of is to monkey patch the Keyboard class such that space keys are remapped to return keys. The script below does this, using a so-called decorator around get_key(). This will affect all key presses though!

  from openexp._keyboard.legacy import Legacy
  
  
  def remap_space(get_key):
  
      """A decorator for the original Keyboard.get_key() to remap the space key
      to a return.
      """
  
      def inner(self, *args, **kwargs):
  
          key, time = get_key(self, *args, **kwargs)
          if key == 'space':
              key = 'return'
          return key, time
  
      return inner
  
  
  Legacy.get_key = remap_space(Legacy.get_key)
  

  
  
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• labovich

  March 2018

  Thanks! I'll try this