hi all, cannot figure out how to draw a variable text stim (ie, the value is being drawn from a column in my csv / excel input file on each trial) where the character is a number (like 9) but it reads it in and draws it as 9.0. only having this problem with numerical stimuli, in a textstim box. thou…

Put your code in a code component Begin Routine tab to set a variable (e.g. msg) and then set the text to $msg

Numerical stimuli converting to float values for textstim

wakecarter April 29, 2021, 6:12pm 2

I solved this recently using str(int(var))

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