End popups for an online running study (now in yellow: "Terminating Experiment", "saving results"

Online experiments
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When an online experiment ends (and you use the pavlovia credits, but license is probably the same), and save it either to .csv or save it to database, the participants get a following popup.

“Terminating Experiment” - in yellow.

This does not appear if you’re just piloting, and seems to be specific to online experiments in which you use a credit (or maybe even a license)?

This might put some of the participants off and make them leave the study (we fear this, in our group). This pup-up doesn’t seem to be changeable in any way that I can see in any documentation. Is there some way to make this in green ‘finishing up, please wait’, or something along those lines?

Or make it so it doesn’t appear at all? Is there a flag I could set to make this hidden? - In principle, the participants don’t really need to see that their data is written/processed or anything else is done to it.

Many thanks
Johan

If this template helps then use it. If not then just delete and start from scratch.

OS (e.g. Win10):
PsychoPy version (e.g. 2024.2.4 Py 3.8):
Standard Standalone Installation? (y/n) If not then what?:
URL of experiment:
Do you want it to also run locally? (y/n)
What are you trying to achieve?:

What did you try to make it work?:

Link to the most relevant existing thread you have found:

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
Include pasted full error message if possible. “That didn’t work” is not enough information.

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Please check this post

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Thank you for your reply.

But the post you are referring to does not answer my question. That post deals with how to end the experiment, but this is not what I asked. The experiments runs and stops just fine so I do not need help with that.

I just want the Warning popup with “Terminate” to disappear. Or to have some control over it. Is there any way to do that?

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My apologies. I had forgotten that that message does come up when exiting cleanly. I was concerned that you were referring to a more serious message that you get when you force quit an experiment.

I’m afraid that I don’t know if it’s possible to edit that message. I’ll try to find out for you.

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Many thanks, I think it might be that once the experiment (cleanly) exits, some code on the server that manages the online experiments, wraps things up, and that may give the yellow “Warning Terminate” message. If that is so, then from an experimental coding point of view there’s nothing to be done about it. There might be a ‘flag’ that you can set in the builder/code block, but this might not be supported (yet). If it is something that you can put in the builder, that would be excellent. Anything that can ‘hide’ it from view, would be good.