Multicharacter keyboard input + German characters (Umlaute)

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• lvanderlinden

  January 2021

  Hi @Cleo,

  
  

  I can't think of an easy solution for this, sorry. @sebastiaan or @eduard , do you have an idea?

  
  

  Cheers,

  
  

  Lotje

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• sebastiaan

  January 2021

  Hi @Cleo and @lvanderlinden ,

  The only way I could think of doing this is by bypassing OSWeb altogether. The script below (and the attached experiment) shows how you can programmatically add a real HTML form, temporarily disable OSWeb, collect the input through the form, and the re-enable OSWeb again. This is actually a pretty promising approach that may be more generally useful to collect form input in OSWeb.

  dynamic_javascript_form.osexp

  --- Sebastiaan

  
  

  function accept_input() {
      // This function is called when the ok button is clicked. It makes
      // OSWeb visible again, restores the key handlers, hides the form,
      // and sets the form response as custom_form_input.
      custom_form.style.display = 'none'
      osweb.style.display = 'block'
      vars.custom_form_input = document.getElementById('input_text').value
      window.addEventListener('keydown', runner._events._keyDownHandler)
      window.addEventListener('keyup', runner._events._keyUpHandler)
  }
  
  // Create a div with a custom HTML form, and append it to the document
  let custom_form = document.createElement('div')
  custom_form.style = 'background-color: gray; height: 100%; text-align: center;'
  custom_form.innerHTML = '<h1>Hi there!</h1><input type="text" id="input_text"><input type="button" id="input_ok" value="ok">'
  document.body.append(custom_form)
  // Hide the element that shows the regular OSWeb content
  let osweb = document.getElementsByClassName('justify-content-center')[0]
  osweb.style.display = 'none';
  // Remove the OSWeb key handlers, because otherwise OSWeb will keep responding
  // to the input to the form.
  window.removeEventListener('keydown', runner._events._keyDownHandler)
  window.removeEventListener('keyup', runner._events._keyUpHandler)
  // Call accept_input() when the Ok button is clicked
  document.getElementById('input_ok').onclick = accept_input
  

  
  
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• bbkm

  July 2021

  Hi Sebastian,

  I am using your solution, and it works fine (thanks!), except when I use this script twice in a row (two inline_javascript) to get, say, the age and the nationality of participants. In that case, the first from input works fine, but then it freezes on the second one: the form appears as it should be, but nothing happens when I click on the "ok" button, so the experiment is stuck.

  Any idea why is this happening ?

  Thank you very much !
• bbkm

  July 2021

  Hi again,

  Just found it, had to rename the id's of the html form !

  Thanks, Best !
• zohar

  July 2021

  HI @sebastiaan ,

  I use this code for a memory experiment in Hebrew. In my experiment, this code appears in a loop, so the subjects could type few words, one by one, until the time is over.

  It works great until I export the subjects results from JATOS. It looks like opensesame saved only the first word that was typed.

  I can't get over it... the logger is in the correct place as well.

  Maybe do you have some idea how can I solve this problem?

  
  

  Thank you!
• sebastiaan

  July 2021

  Hi @zohar ,

  Could you upload the experiment here (or a simplified that illustrates the issue) so that I can take a look?

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• zohar

  July 2021

  
  

  online.day2.osexp

  Thank you!
• sebastiaan

  July 2021

  @zohar Right, I see. I don't fully understand the structure of the experiment, i.e. what the two nested loops correspond to. But I suspect that the logger should be part of now_word_seq (and not recall_seq_1_2) so that it's executed after each time that a response is collected. Could that be it?

  
  
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• zohar

  July 2021

  Hi,

  Thank you for your answer.

  I already tried it but it does not work... I also tried to delete one loop and leave just one.
• zohar

  August 2021 edited August 2021

  @sebastiaan Hi again,

  I tried to do few things and I think the problem is in the HTML code.

  First, I changed the HTML code to a multichar response (typed in English) and the data was saved well.

  Second, in the response loop there is also a rating scale and his data also saved correctly.

  Maybe I need to change something in the HTML code to save all the words and not only one?

  I have been working on this experiment for 4 months and am a little desperate ...

  I am really appreciate your help,

  Zohar.
• sebastiaan

  August 2021

  @zohar I just released a test version of OSWeb 1.4. This provides much better support for text input (including non-Latin characters). This should allow you to simplify your experiment considerably, thus hopefully also resolving this issue.

  • https://forum.cogsci.nl/discussion/7376/

  
  
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