OS (e.g. Win10): MacOS, Win7 PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 3.0.0 **Standard Standalone? Yes **What are you trying to achieve?:I would like to change the keypress to end an experiment from escape to another key, such as ctrl+escape. I am having my participants enter numbers to respond to stimul…

Hi @eyexciteme , to disable the escape key, go to your experiment settings, and deselect the Enable escape key option. In PsychoPy, once you have disabled the escape key, you cannot reuse it in combination with other keys. Instead, you could use another common key combination. Choose your combination…

We’ve tried this solution with no luck. If I understand correctly, this snippet should be put in every routine in code components on the “each frame” tab. I have tried multiple combination of keys, and the experiment quits when I input any three keys (regardless of timing). For example, if I press …

Please show us the actual code you are using. The snippet of code above is actually a bit mangled and wouldn’t work as described.

I tried virtually the same as what @dvbridges suggested. After disabling ‘esc’ key, in each routine under the “every frame” tab: keys = event.getKeys() for key in keys: if 'b' and 'p' in key: core.quit()

Thanks. That sort-of works. If I put that code in the “begin routine” tab for each routine, and I press those two buttons, it won’t quit immediately, but it will quit when that routine finishes. A workable fix, I suppose.

That code should be in Each Frame

Yeah that code has a typo, I will edit the original just to avoid confusion - not sure if it works now.

I think Wakefield has it correct in this post: [image] Changing quit experiment key press from escape Builder Personally I would try keys = event.getKeys() if 'b' in keys and 'p' in keys: core.quit() ie putting a for loop in there will break things, as you w…

I can confirm that this doesn’t work, unfortunately. I’m assuming if keys gets created every frame, it won’t quit unless ‘b’ and ‘p’ are input on the same frame. The best workaround I’ve found is creating keys in “Begin Routine” and then looking for ‘b’ and ‘p’ each frame. However, this still only q…

Changing quit experiment key press from escape

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wakecarter March 8, 2021, 9:05pm 7

Personally I would try

keys = event.getKeys()
if 'b' in keys and 'p' in keys:
        core.quit()

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