[open] Psychopy back-end issues on Microsoft Surface 3

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• sebastiaan

  November 2014 edited 8:11PM

  Hi Felipe,

  Nevertheless when I run the experiment in full screen or in the test mode it crashes saying: "Importerror: cannot import name core."

  The correct way to import core is directly from psychopy, not from psychopy.visual. So your import statement should look like this:

  from psychopy.visual import TextStim
  from psychopy import core
  import random
  

  Does that solve the issue? Perhaps you developed the experiment using another version of PsychoPy in which your (incorrect) import statement worked by accident?

  Can anybody tell me with wich other back-end I could generate a checkerboard textured discs in a realtive easy way on different pictures backgrounds?

  If you want to work with textures, masks, and other advanced stimuli, then the psycho back-end is really the back-end of choice. So unless PsychoPy really doesn't work on the tablet (which I doubt), I would stick to it.

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• faedojury

  November 2014 edited 8:11PM

  Hi Sebastiaan

  Thanks for your answer.
  It seems it is not just a problem of how I called the library because anyway it crashes if you write it well. It doesnt find any psychopy library actually, not textStim either (that was well writen in my previous script.)

  So I was on psychopy forum too and it seems that the drivers that microsoft windows 8.1 installs for the graphic card of the Intel I5 of the surface tablet for some reason are not compatible with pyglet and some other libraries of psychopy:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/psychopy-users/ir_KQLfCPeA/VT7r37sf9cMJ

  Nevertheless I started to install previous versions of opensesame and 2.8 and 2.9 failed to run psychopy back-end but it is working perfectly on the 0.27 at the moment.
  Maybe this can give you an idea where is the root of the problem.

  Anyway thanks a lot again for the help and the problem is solved for now and opensesame 0.27 is running quite well on the tablet.

  Cheers,

  Felipe
• Edwin

  November 2014 edited 8:11PM

  Hi @sebastiaan,

  On a (somewhat) related note: I've noticed that PyGame overestimates the display size on Surface RT tablets. That is: when one sets the resolution to the actual resolution (I've tried 1920x1080 and 1366x768), the PyGame display Surface extends beyond the actual display's edges.

  Curiously, PsychoPy reports that the actual display resolution is 1200x800. Any ideas?

  Cheers!