[solved] formatting sektchpad textline (margins, alignment etc.)

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• sebastiaan

  November 2014 edited 4:29AM

  Hi Timo,

  So you want to draw text, but avoid the text from running all the way to the edge of the screen, is that right? I'm afraid that's not really possible. OpenSesame will wrap to avoid crossing the screen boundaries, but that's it. You cannot set a custom size or a margin for a textline element in a sketchpad.

  What you could do, though, is fool OpenSesame by specifying a resolution that is smaller than your actual display resolution. If use the xpyriment or psycho back-ends, this will have the effect of creating a virtual window in the center of the screen. And OpenSesame will respect the boundaries of this virtual window, thus giving you a margin of sorts.

  See also here:

  • http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/1306#Comment_1306

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• timo

  November 2014 edited November 2014

  That's a great workaround!

  Thanks for your quick and helpful response, Sebastiaan.
• TomArmstrong

  June 2017

  I'm trying this workaround, but I'm not getting the text wrapping at the edge of the screen. I have the resolution set to 1024 x 768 in OpenSesame and I'm using the xpyriment back-end. My monitor is 1920 x 1080. I'm displaying survey items in a text box on a sketchpad. The sketchpad is in a sequence in a loop, and the survey items are listed in a column in the loop. When the items display, they run past the edge of the resolution defined in OpenSesame and in a few cases (long items), they run past the edge of the actual monitor and some of the words aren't displayed.

  I would greatly appreciate any advice you have!

  Best,

  Tom
• sebastiaan

  July 2017

  @TomArmstrong I answered your question here.

  
  
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