Continue t from one routine to the next?

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General question:
Is it possible to let the trial clock t continue from one routine to the next?
Or at least pass its value on so that it can seamlessly continue?
I have a stim that moves as a function of time and I want the movement to continue smoothly from one routine to the next

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Hi Marc,

You can create your own clock in code, which Builder won’t know about, so it won’t get reset unless you do it yourself. e.g. in a code component’s “begin routine” tab, do something like this to create a timer that will only be created at the start of the first loop iteration, and so will keep timing across trials:

if your_loop_name.thisN == 0:
    marcs_timer = core.Clock()

Then at any point, you can get the time from this pan-trial clock via:

marcs_timer.getTime()

You don’t want to be changing the behaviour of the t variable itself, as Builder uses that extensively to control things.

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