Dear all, Is there any work-around to use gui elements (especially combo-box menu and checkbox) in the trial loop? I opened and checked the codes and they seem quite independent from the main ‘screen’ scripts. I could open screen in windows mode, and able to open another window (seems wxpython) o…

Thanks for your reply. I am trying to integrate them in one window. (put the drop-down menu inside standard psychopy screen). Is it impossible now?

I don’t think so. In PsychoPy, in the main window, we control all of the drawing ourselves (except for when the mouse pointer is shown, which is drawn by the operating system). So we can’t show interactive controls from other libraries, as they would need to be controlling the drawing to the window …

Can the gui element be implemented inside trial loop?

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Michael April 2, 2018, 2:28am 2

A window in fullscreen mode wouldn’t be fullscreen if other windows could be displayed in front of it (and receive move and keyboard events). You need to actively minimise your main window to allow another one be seen and interacted with. Read this thread (despite the title, this is not a bug):

Topic		Replies	Views
Bug: User-defined GUI does not display in full screen on Mac OSX Coding code	4	3233	July 28, 2018
Make psychopy full screen in the middle of experiment Coding	4	1087	July 15, 2019
Skipping dialogue box prevents fullscreen Builder online , pavlovia	3	483	May 12, 2025
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Can the gui element be implemented inside trial loop?

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