Cursor disappears between clicks
Hi everyone,
I'm very new to OpenSesame so I apologize if this is something stupid, but I did some tutorials already and I did search and couldn't find anything about this exact issue.
I have an in-progress program on OpenSesame 3.3.12 with xpyriment backend. It's designed to collect mouseclicks and behave differently based on the cursor_roi variable. In the mouse response settings, the "visible mouse cursor" checkbox is checked. However, when I first start the program, the cursor is not visible until I click somewhere on the screen. Additionally, every time I click anywhere on the screen, whether it is a defined roi or not, the cursor disappears again. Then when I click again, it reappears. It behaves the same with the disappearing and reappearing no matter where I click, but if I click on a defined region of interest when it's invisible, it doesn't register. The cursor_roi variable remains undefined and the cursor appears, almost as if I've just clicked back on a program window after having clicked on another window. It behaved the same way with the psycho backend.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening, but it isn't workable for the experiment. I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance.
Comments
Hi,
Can you share your experiment? My hunch is that, your mouse response is not active yet, becauuse you have set the duration of the canvas to mouseclick. Is that possible? If you set it to 0, does it then work?
Eduard
Hi eduard,
Your hunch is absolutely correct! Changing the sketchpad duration to 0 resolves the problem and I see what's going on there and why now. Sorry for the trouble and many thanks!