Abort Trial If Mouse Stops Moving

Coding
1

I honestly have no idea how to start writing this. I understand there is the
mouseMoved
but this only looks at the distance. I want to abort the trial if the mouse stops moving at all. Thoughts?

2

Hi, spitballing here!

Maybe you could try having a counter that start at a value “x” and gains an unit of value at a fixed time (e.g. 1 every 100 msec). If the counter reaches a certain value the trials stops.

Then, moving the mouse removes some value from the counter, up to a minimum of “x”.

tandy

3

Hello, thank you for your reply! Could you elaborate further? I think I understand (theoretically), but I’m not sure how to implement the part of moving the mouse subtracting from the counter.

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Get the position of the mouse each frame. If it’s the same as the previous frame add 1 to a counter. If it’s different, reset the counter to 0

End the routine if the counter reaches a certain value

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I figured this out by doing this:
At begin routine

x_coord = []
y_coord = []
counter = 0

And then at each frame

x_coord.append(mouse.getPos()[0])
y_coord.append(mouse.getPos()[1])

if trial_clock.getTime() > 2:
    if (x_coord[-1] == x_coord[-2]) & (y_coord[-1] == y_coord[-2]) and buttons==[0,0,0]:
        counter = counter + 1
        if counter > 5:
            abort = 1
            continueRoutine = False
        else:
            continueRoutine = True

Thank you all for your help!