Align Text Code Component not working

[Jennyzl]

What are you trying to achieve?: Hello there! I have a quick question for beginners. I want to align my introduction text to the left. Right now it is entered around the pos parameter.

What did you try to make it work?: I searched for solutions in the forum and found this coding tip:
text.alignHoriz = ‘left’` . I defindet the Text that I wanted to be aligned, but Psychopy just gives out this Error message:

text.alignHoriz = ‘left’
AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘alignHoriz’
Experiment ended.

Now that I am new to coding and Python in general, I am not sure what went wrong or what I could do
to work it out. I would be greatful if someone could give me a hint on that

[Laura_Pissani]

Try changing the code to:

text.alignText='left'

where the first “text” is the name of your text component.

[Jennyzl]

Hi there @Laura_Pissani!
Thank you for your replay! I tried it but it is not working
Psychopy is giving me this error message:

Text1.alignText=‘left’
NameError: name ‘Text1’ is not defined
Experiment ended.

What could be the problem?

[Laura_Pissani]

It could be either the Caps, maybe your component is text1 and not Text1, or that you need to move your code component to the bottom/top of your routine.

[Laura_Pissani]

See screenshots attached.

[Jennyzl]

Hi @Laura_Pissani,

thanks a lot! I had to move the coder component to the bottom, I didn’t know that this has such a impact.
Thanks a lot for your help!