Text Input for free recall of multiple words

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• sebastiaan

  April 2018

  Hi,

  The first thing that comes to mind is simply to have three form_text_input items in a row, and have each of them accept the response on enter. Does that work, and if not, in what sense doesn't it?

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• Fawkes

  April 2018

  Hi,
  Thanks for responding. I did think about that. But the requirement of this particular experiment is that I give the participants 3 minutes to enter all the words they remember. The number of words will then vary from participant to participant. I cannot arrange a finite number of form_text_input can I? I also need the timeout of 3 minutes. Is that possible?
  So I basically want the participant to start entering the words they can remember and in case they are done before 3 minutes, they can simply press a button to proceed. If they continue to recollect and type, I want the form to end after 3 minutes. Please do let me know if there is any way for me to implement this.
  Thanks a lot
• eduard

  April 2018

  Hi Fawkes,

  I agree with Sebastiaan's suggestion. But I would implement it entirely in an inline_script with a while loop. In that inline_script you check how much time has passed since the loop was entered and whether participants pressed a certain exit key. If both are False, you open up a form and let participant type another word. Attached a script does should bring you most of the way.

  Good luck,
  Eduard

  
• Fawkes

  April 2018

  Hello Eduard,
  This worked perfectly. It was just as I needed. However, is there some way to automatically exit the loop after 3 minutes? Right now it exits only when I type in a word after 3 minutes have passed. This would be of great help. I'll be done with my experiment once this thing is sorted.

  Thanks again for the help,
  Fawkes
• eduard

  May 2018

  Yes!
  Just add timeout = <your timeout in milliseconds> to the creation of the form (prepare phase line 5).

  Eduard

  
• Fawkes

  May 2018

  Hi Eduard,
  The timeout option was already present in the script you shared. My issue is that the form has to close as soon as the specified time is up. However, it does not close. Only when I type in a word and hit the next button, it closes. The form is still open even after the time has passed. So in this case, the last word can be entered even after a long time and the form still accepts this last word before exiting. I hope you understood my issue.
  Thanks
  Fawkes
• eduard

  May 2018 edited May 2018

  Hi,

  No, it wasn't set.

  In the prepare phase, there should be this code:

  var.start_time = clock.time()
  timeout = 180000
  
  def resetForm():
      form = Form(
          cols=[1,1], rows=[1,2,1],
          margins=(50,100,50,100), spacing=25)
  
      text_input = TextInput(
              text=u'>>', frame=True, center=False, stub=u'Type here …',
              return_accepts=False, var=u'response',timeout = 2000) # THIS TIMEOUT KEYWORD IS NEW!
      button = Button(text=u'Next', frame=True, center=True, var=u'response')
      exitbutton = Button(text=u'Done', frame=True, center=True, var=u'exitButton')
  
      form.set_widget(exitbutton, (1, 2))
      form.set_widget(button, (0, 2))
      form.set_widget(text_input, (0, 0))
      return form
  
  

  Can you spot the difference?

  
• Fawkes

  May 2018

  Hi Eduard,
  I added the keyword like you showed. There is an error message stating that 'timeout' is an unexpected keyword argument.
  Fawkes
• eduard

  May 2018 edited May 2018

  Oh, my bad.

  That was the wrong function, timeout has to be part of form initialization not widget creation.
  That code here should work.

  var.start_time = clock.time()
  timeout = 180000
  
  def resetForm():
      form = Form(
          cols=[1,1], rows=[1,2,1],
          margins=(50,100,50,100), spacing=25,timeout = 2000) # Here it goes
  
      text_input = TextInput(
              text=u'>>', frame=True, center=False, stub=u'Type here …',
              return_accepts=False, var=u'response') 
      button = Button(text=u'Next', frame=True, center=True, var=u'response')
      exitbutton = Button(text=u'Done', frame=True, center=True, var=u'exitButton')
  
      form.set_widget(exitbutton, (1, 2))
      form.set_widget(button, (0, 2))
      form.set_widget(text_input, (0, 0))
      return form
  

  
• Fawkes

  May 2018

  Yes!! It worked just like I wanted. Thanks a ton for all the help.
• nomi

  February 2022

  Can someone provide the full code that implements the initial (@Fawkes) question please?

  Thanks in advance @eduard and @sebastiaan
• eduard

  February 2022

  Hi Nomi,

  No unfortunately I dont have the code saved anywhere. And I also don't really remember what it did in detail. Perhaps it is wiser if you describe your problem and maybe we can figure out how to implement it?

  Eduard