[open] Can't open experiment made on OS X on Windows 7

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• sebastiaan

  November 2013 edited 12:03AM

  The problem, as you probably suspected, is that the form_text_render plug-in is missing or not properly installed. You can download this plug-in from the GitHub source code, and simply copy the form_text_render folder to your OpenSesame plugins folder.

  • https://github.com/smathot/OpenSesame/releases

  If you still encounter this problem, you can start OpenSesame in debug mode by opening a command prompt in the OpenSesame folder and executing

  opensesame.exe --debug

  This will prevent OpenSesame from catching the error, and you should see an informative error message in opensesame.exe.log.

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• cubistular

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  Hi there,

  I'm having the exact same problem.
  I created an experiment that runs perfectly on a MacBook Pro (OS X). However, when i try to open the experiment file on my testing machine - a PC - it gives an error message that reads: "Filed to open file, exception message: No module named form_text_render exception type: ImportError"

  I understand that I need to installed the form_text_render plugin ... but can't find that plugin anywhere online (it doesn't seem to be on that page that you sent through: https://github.com/smathot/OpenSesame/releases ).

  Any help would be much appreciated!
• sebastiaan

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  Hi,

  The form_text_render plug-in is part of the source code, and not bundled separately. So you would just download the latest OpenSesame source code through the link I posted above, extract it, and copy the plugins/form_text_render folder to your existing OpenSesame installation.

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• cubistular

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  Fantastic - thanks @sebastiaan that experiment now runs perfectly on the Windows 7 machine

  However, I have just tried to transfer over another experiment that works perfectly on a MacBook Pro (OS X; OpenSesame 0.27.4)… but when I open it on a PC the following error message appears:

  Unexpected error: exception message.
  Exception type: WindowsError

  See attached screenshot for the error message pop-up window.

  Any help would be much appreciated!

  Many thanks
• cubistular

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  
• sebastiaan

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  It seems like you're seeing the same problem as reported by @martijnvk here:

  • http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/1039/

  Let's the move the discussion there and try to figure out what's going on.

  
  
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• cubistular

  June 2014 edited 12:03AM

  Many thanks @sebastiann ... I'll head there now...