Presenting multiple text inputs on one screen

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• fladd

  March 2019

  Hi Peta,

  
  

  this is currently not possible.

  
  

  Best,

  Florian

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• Peta

  March 2019

  Hi Florian,

  Good to know, shame though. Thanks!

  Peta
• FLeone

  March 2019

  Hi Florian,

  Didn't give it a try myself, but maybe to rephrase the question a bit:

  We want to

  • ask the participant to give 0 till 4 typed answers
  • either in one or on multiple text boxes.
  • If in multiple: enter jumps to next text box or, even better, shows/creates an additional one.
  • If in one text box: on new lines, so separated by enters, with possibly a double entering or other special character to end the input.

  Is something like this possible? :)

  Thanks in advance!

  best,

  Frank
• FLeone

  March 2019

  Maybe to try to answer my own question, would it be a possibility to:

  • Have one text box initially
  • Which is read out when enter is hit
  • If the field is empty: go to next trial
  • If the field is not empty, present same trial again, with:
  • > the first text box replaced by the answer that was typed there (so no text box, just a non-editable field)
  • > a new text box to type in
  • Repeat, until max number of text boxes has been hit.

  ?

  That would work for us for sure. Thanks!

  Frank
• fladd

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  Hi Frank,

  
  

  something like the following?

  import expyriment as xpy
  
  
  xpy.control.set_develop_mode()
  
  questions = ["What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?",
              "How far away is the moon?",
              "Can I haz cheeseburgers?"]
  
  exp = xpy.control.initialize()
  
  for q in questions:
     bg = xpy.stimuli.Canvas((600,600))
     for n in range(4):
         i = xpy.io.TextInput(q, position=(0, 150-n*100), background_stimulus=bg)
         answer = i.get()
         if answer.strip() == "":
             break
         xpy.stimuli.TextLine(answer, position=(0, 150-n*100)).plot(bg)
  

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• Randi

  March 2019

  Hi Florian,

  It does work! Thanks a lot!

  Best,

  Randi