continueRoutine = False is quite slow online, screens still flash

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URL of experiment: Pavlovia

Description of the problem:

My task demands a pretty long sequence of routines which are all a part of one task loop.
In some conditions, dependent on participant’s responses, I need to skip several trials that were specified in the loop sheet.

A solution that works in psychopy is to skip routines using if statements within routines and execute the statement: continueRoutine = False

However, when I put the experiment online, the content of these skipped routines still appears on the screen.

It would be great if you could let me if there’s a way to ensure the screens don’t flash, or an alternative way of skipping trials specified in a loop.

Best wishes,
Milan

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Hi @milan, an alternative is to surround the respective routines with a dummy loop and specify its number of repetitions to be 0 or 1 in a code component preceding this loop.

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Have you put this into Begin Routine or Each Frame? The former is better.

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Thanks for the quick response! It was in Begin Routine already, but good thinking thanks!

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Thanks @ajus that worked very well!