One Loop Nested in another Loop breaking Issue

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• eduard

  November 2018

  Hi,

  How did you implement this? Can you share the experiment (preferably as simplified as possible)? What you describe shouldn't happen ideally.

  Thanks,
  Eduard

  
• harrisonadler

  November 2018

  Hi Eduard,

  

  The outer loop of the experiment contains a series of different pictures, which are referenced on the test phase sketchpad item. The program is designed to run through all of these photos in a random order (break_if: never). The inner loop contains a series of duration at which the testphase item is presented at. These must be sequential, in a progressively longer order. When the participant is able to identify the picture presented, a keypress breaks the inner loop (break_if: [response] = w). When the inner loop is broken, the program should move onto the next item in the outer loop, starting at the first duration of the inner loop for a new photo. However, for some reason, when the inner loop breaks, instead of calling back to the outer loop, the program runs as if the outer loop does not exist, moving to the THE_END sketchpad item. I have tried playing around with breaking loops, and it appears no matter what structure exists around a loop, when it is broken the program moves onto the closest sketchpad item below it, regardless of any other loops.

  I have worked around this issue by creating separate loops for each photo, which removes the need for the outer loop. However, this makes the program load slowly, so if you have any suggestions on how to make the nested loops work as intended, that would be wonderful!

  Thanks for your help,

  Harrison
• eduard

  November 2018

  Hi Harrison,

  Well, as far as I can see, the THE_END sketchpad is the next item in the outer loop, once the inner loop is finished. So given your description and your screenshot everything seems to make perfect sense. You also don't have an outer loop sequence. So until you have set up the outer loop properly, I don't think it is going to work.

  Eduard

  
• harrisonadler

  November 2018

  Hi Eduard,

  I apologize for the quality of that screenshot; it did not make the structure of the program clear

  

  Here you can see that THE_END sketchpad item is not in the outer loop (with it minimized), it is the item after the outer loop. And so if the outer loop is set to never break, the program should run through all of the photos in the table in the inner loop before moving onto THE_END.

  
  Here I added an outer loop sequence. The program still breaks the outer loop after the first run of the inner loop, and moves onto the THE_END sketchpad.

  Any suggestions you might have would be much appreciated!

  Harrison
• eduard

  December 2018

  Hi harrison,

  Can you share the experiment with us? Maybe even a simplified version that still shows the same behaviour? This will speed up debugging a little,

  Eduard