[solved] From Windows to Mac

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• eduard

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  Hi Eglantine,

  What kind of issues are you facing in particular? Only performance? Or do also other things don't work. As far as I know, the Mac version of Opensesame 3.0 is still a bit unstable. If you give more detail (and maybe share your experiment) we might be able to help you fixing it.

  In general, it is not possible to save an experiment that was created in OpenSesame 3.0.x in a format that OpenSesame 2.9.x can open (or is there some trick, I'm not aware of @Sebastiaan ?). So if you wanna go for running it on your Mac with 2.9.x, you should probably also program it with this version.

  Hope this helped.

  Good luck,

  Eduard

  
• Eglantine

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  Hi Eduard,
  Thanks for your quick answer. Yes I'm facing performance issue as the experiment is running very slowly: when I lick on the 'Next' button or try select a widget (Likert scale), the response time from the computer is more than 3sec. I'm studying emotion and mood so such delay would result in an alteration of my results...

  Here the structure of my experiment
  file:///N:/Desktop/exp1.png
  (with another PANAS loop at the end after the recall)

  Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?

  Many thanks!
• eduard

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  I can't open your image. It seems you have posted a local address.
  Well, form tend to be slow, especially if they contain many widgets. So, one solution (if not already the case) is having as few widgets as possible on your forms. Other than that, I don't know much what can be done.
  Btw. are these performance issues specific to the 3.0 version of OpenSesame, or do they also occur in the older ones?

  Eduard

  
• Eglantine

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  http://img.cogsci.nl/upload.php
  does this work better?
  I tend to have 5 to 6 questions per page, each question answered with a 5-point Likert scales. I use an inscript to present the questions in a random order

  I only use OpenSesame 3.0 but I don't have any performance issue on my computer, only on laptops...

  Many thanks for your help!
  Eglantine
• sebastiaan

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  Hi Eglantine,

  It sounds like you're using forms in combination with the xpyriment or psycho backend; this can indeed result in horrible performance. However, in most cases switching to the legacy backend resolves this.

  • http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/forms/performance-issues-and-troubleshooting/

  Does this work for you?

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• Eglantine

  January 2016 edited 2:59AM

  Hi Sebastian,

  Thank you so much it is working way better now!

  Cheers,
  Eglantine