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OS: Win10
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x):
Standard Standalone? yes
What are you trying to achieve?:
I want people to make five different ratings (e.g., curiosity, degree of mystery) for a sentence on-screen.
I am using the slider component to collect the ratings.
The sentence will remain static at the top of the screen.
I want to show one rating question at a time (e.g., How curious are you to learn what happens next, How a great a mystery does this sentence present?).
The question and the anchor will change after each rating.
In summary: People will read a sentence and a press a spacebar when they have understood it. Then they will make five ratings, one-at-a-time, that measure different dimensions about that sentence.
What did you try to make it work?:
I created two routines, one for which people read the sentence and one for which they make their ratings. The sentence reading routine is a straightforward text + keyboard response. The sentence ratings routine has the same sentence in the same location, but adds an additional text component for the rating question and the slider component.
I created a loop around the ratings routine.
I first created a conditions file with two variables, one for the rating question and one for the anchors that will appear. In Labels for the slider component I entered $anchors and received a syntax error (EDIT: I did switch to setEveryRepeat from constant):
I don't know the appropriate default value for a 'labels' parameter. Please email the mailing list about this error
## Running: C:\Users\Zared\Documents\PsychoPy\diss\Pilot V2 Masters\Diss_Pilot_V2Masters_NormingRatings_lastrun.py ##
3300.9054 INFO Loaded monitor calibration from ['2019_08_08 10:34']
File "C:\Users\Zared\Documents\PsychoPy\diss\Pilot V2 Masters\Diss_Pilot_V2Masters_NormingRatings_lastrun.py", line 112
labels=[$anchors], ticks=(0,1,2,3,4,5,6),
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I then tried to separate the anchors into two variables, thus for Labels I entered $leftAnchor, $rightAnchor to no avail and received a similar syntax error pointing at the labels argument. The error message is exactly the same, so I did not include it for brevity.
I realize that I could create 5 different sliders with the same location and trigger them to start and stop using conditions and a code component. (I will probably move forward with this, clunkier solution for the sake of getting data). However, I would prefer the more elegant solution of being able to use variables for the slider Labels. Am I missing something about how to do that correctly?