Creating Box Task in builder? (some grey "boxes" - chosen at random - change color when "opened" with a click)

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@dvbridges, thank you for your suggestion to look at the PsychoPy version. Indeed, the problem above (file not running) was due to the fact that I was opening the file with PsychoPy2.

I have made some progress in building the box task. In the task I have white “boxes” and each one may “contain” a different color (red or blue).
Right now, upon running the file in attachment, I have four white squares; if I click on one of the squares, the color “below” is revealed.

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The problem is that if I click on a second square nothing happens; the change of color works only with the first square I click on - instead this should work for each square till all the colors are potentially “revealed”.

I attached the builder file and the condition file.
In my code I set the following code snippet under “Each Frame”, adapted from this page (I also set “click_on = False” under “Begin Routine”):

if mouse.isPressedIn(p1):
    if not click_on:
        click_on = True
        click_on = t # current time
        p1.fillColor = 'red'
    else:
        click_on = t 
if click_on and t - click_on > 10:
    click_on = False
    p1.fillColor = 'white'
    
if mouse.isPressedIn(p2):
    if not click_on:
        click_on = True
        click_on = t # current time
        p2.fillColor = 'red'
    else:
        click_on = t 
if click_on and t - click_on > 10:
    click_on = False
    p2.fillColor = 'white'
    
if mouse.isPressedIn(p3):
    if not click_on:
        click_on = True
        click_on = t # current time
        p3.fillColor = 'red'
    else:
        click_on = t 
if click_on and t - click_on > 10:
    click_on = False
    p3.fillColor = 'white'

if mouse.isPressedIn(p4):
    if not click_on:
        click_on = True
        click_on = t # current time
        p4.fillColor = 'blue'
    else:
        click_on = t 
if click_on and t - click_on > 10:
    click_on = False
    p4.fillColor = 'white'

This code goes with the following simplified condition file:

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Again, the problem with this file is that I can unveil only one box, the first one I click on.

I have tried playing with the if statement, for example using ifelse, but the result was the same. I also realize that this code is inelegant and a bit cumbersome especially when I will use, let’s say, 24 boxes (but I am willing to go there if necessary!)

Please let me know how I could modify the code to have the possibility to “unveil” each “box” (the white squares).

conditionsJS.xlsx (8.5 KB)
colRects.psyexp (17.8 KB)

NOTE:

I have tried to use your code to build a loop:

rects = [p1, p2, p3, p4]
for rect in rects:
    if mouse.isPressedIn(rect):
        if not click_on:
            click_on = True
            click_on = t # current time
            rect.fillColor = 'red'
        else:
            click_on = t 
    if click_on and t - click_on > 10:
        click_on = False
        rect.fillColor = 'white'

This code gives me the same result as before though, and now all the squares are set to be changed to red (while before I had p4 set manually to blue.)

I know that your suggestion was slightly different; but when I try to implement your code in full…

shuffle(myCol)
# Create container of your shapes from Builder
rects = [p1, p2, p3, p4]
# Reset color of shapes
for rect in rects:
    rect.setColor('white')
for rect in rects:
    if mouse.isPressedIn(rect):
        if rect.fillColor == 'white':
            rect.setColor(myCol.pop())

…using this conditions file:

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I then get the following error:

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