Description of the problem: I have managed to sync my psychopy experiment to pavlovia but when I tried it to run it online either from the builder or pavlovia a white screen with a message “initialising the experiment”. I’ve waited about 18 minutes but nothing has changed. Anyone encounter such iss…

Hi, Looks like you have a text stimulus with a blank entry in the ‘text’ (textblank500) try adding a space as a placeholder :slight_smile: Becca

Dear Ghozs Elotee there are 50+ threads in this forum with the same error message Psychopy to Pavlovia code error: stuck on initialising experiment code error Stuck on Initialising Experiment aso. You might to take a look at those first. best wishes Jens

Thank you for your replies I’ve tried to read through the cribs sheet, but still unable to figure out the syntax error here is the link to the study [image] Ghozayel / phraseHunter3 This is an attempt to run the experiment after deleting data, git, and html files …

Thank you Becca. I’ve added a space in in the ‘text’ (textblank500) and ran it online but no change. I’ve removed blank500 from the experiment and I still have the initialising experiment code error.

Hi There, I think this is because you had other components that has text components with blank spaces. My forked copy of your task doesn’t get stuck on the initializing page :slight_smile: https://pavlovia.org/lpxrh6/phrasehunter3 Becca

yes, we had the same problem here. It seems that the behavior has changed recently. When we collected data earlier this summer, empty text boxes caused no problems. But now when we tried to run the same study it got stuck on the initialization screen on pavlovia, which was due to an out of place co…

Thank you Becca and Henning for your help. I’ve removed the Blank500 text stimuli. I have checked other text boxes, they are all with texts. I can’t find where the other empty text boxes to add apace. Can I do it from pavlovia? I’ve seen the forked copy but can’t find the same line in the html file…

Hi Ghoza. I would run the study on pavlovia using Chrome as a browser. When it gets stuck on the initialization screen, open the developer tools (click on the 3 dots in the upper right -> more tools -> developer tools. Then within developer tools, click on console. It will tell you in which line of …

Hi There, Just pull the .psyexp file from my forked project and replace your own .psyexp - you do not need to make any edits beyond that to code etc :slight_smile: Becca

Thankyou for that! I’ve just tried that and finally it works, the initialising stuck screen gone away. I’m not sure why the screen color in the online version is black whereas in the builder I set it to be white, Any idea?

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