[open] Opensesame with Android tablet in Kiosk mode

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• eduard

  May 2015 edited 12:21PM

  Hi Alessio,

  In general, you can do pretty much everything with OpenSesame that is possible with python. The trickiest part is usually to embed these "special" elements into your experiment, without having to open multiple windows, require the participant to start an application, or other nuisances.
  In your case, this seems less of an issue, since the making of a histogram, and sending a job to the printer, happens in the very end of your experiment, where it doesn't matter so much what will happen after that. The way to go is adding an inline_scripts to your experiment, in which you put the python code that does your job.

  is it possible create "histograms" at runtime?

  For the histogram, you just need to put the computation in an inline_script in the end of your experiment. Optionally, you can save it in the file_pool as an image and present it afterwards in a sketchpad.

  send that feedback to a printer

  I never worked with printers, so I don't know whether this will work (especially on an Android system), but have a look on this discussion. Again, if you can do it python, you should be able to do it with OpenSesame.

  In a block I need a slider to choose between two values.

  check out these discussions:

  • http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/1415/open-slider-and-touch-screen/p1
  • http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/40/#Item_8
  • http://www.cogsci.nl/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1032/solved-graphic-rating-scale/p1

  I hope this helps.

  Eduard

  
• elaci0

  May 2015 edited 12:21PM

  Thanks,
  I should have searched a little bit more before asking..
  
  What about the "endless" experiemtns? Do you think it is possible?
  
  I was thinking something managing the Subject's number variable at runtime, if it would work.

  Thanks,
  alessio
• elaci0

  May 2015 edited 12:21PM

  about the printing support I later discovered that "if python can do it, not all OpenSesame version can" :-)
  
  I guess that the android runtime does not contain the wx module so I don't know how to print from android.
  gosh..
• sebastiaan

  May 2015 edited 12:21PM

  about the printing support I later discovered that "if python can do it, not all OpenSesame version can" I guess that the android runtime does not contain the wx module so I don't know how to print from android.

  That's correct, at least in the sense that the OpenSesame runtime for Android comes with a limited subset of Python modules, as described here. The Python language itself is fully supported, of course.

  Regarding printing. This will be tricky, but one option is to connect through a socket to another computer, which does the actual printing. That would work in principle, but might take more time and technical know-how than you'd care to invest. (But maybe not if it's for a large project.)

  Cheers!
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• elaci0

  May 2015 edited 12:21PM

  I see, it's quite difficult.
  
  last I was looking for a way to use python script to invoke something on the tablet (java command?) to print.
  
  thanks Sebastian!