Outputting position units / Error in reassigning them

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Hi,

I am running an experiment that requires some rectangles to be placed strategically over the images. Each image is different and I may need to add more images in the future, so instead of going round and manually doing this to work out the rectangles position/size/orientation for each of the images, I wrote a program that allowed me to place the rectangles on the screen with a mouse. Once clicked, the program logs rect.height, rect.width, rect.ori, rect.pos into a text file that will be read in the main experiment to place such rectangles on a trial by trial basis.

i get/log these values to a text file by calling something like posX = rect.pos[0] or width = rect.width

This is an example of the output:

img: Happy_face.jpg
X: -0.003125
Y: -0.08984375
Width: 0.3
Height: 0.2
Ori: (0,0)

Here is an example of my variable for shape.rect in the main program:

rectStim = visual.Rect(win, width=0.2, height=0.1,
                      opacity=1.0, fillColor='blue',
                      lineColor='white')

However, when I then try and use such coordinates to position each image in the main program:

rect.pos = [X, Y])

i get an following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ET_ASD_Mouse_v2.py", line 118, in <module>
    eyeStim.height = thisTrial['eyeSizeH']
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\psychopy\tools\attributetools.py", line 27, in __set__
    newValue = self.func(obj, value)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\psychopy\visual\rect.py", line 77, in height
    self._calcVertices()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\psychopy\visual\rect.py", line 47, in _calcVertices
    self.vertices = numpy.array([(-self.width * .5, self.height * .5),
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'

Do i need to convert the numbers that are being logged by the initial program (X: -0.003125, Y: -0.08984375) somehow before using rect.pos = (x, y)?

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Kris

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It looks like the error is occuring when you are setting eyeStim.height - seems that thisTrial['eyeSizeH'] has a sequence (such as a list) rather than a single number.

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Ah this was a confusing error, I was thinking it had received a float (…of type ‘float’). The solution was that I had just imported the CSV file, and it read these in as strings and not of type float.

Thanks for your help!