Pause code is not working and no error message displayed

[MarinaIosifian]

Hi everyone,
We have a JS code which enables a pause to appear after every 20 trials:

if (trials.thisN !== 20){
continueRoutine = false;
}

This code is working fine. But when we make slight changes to other routines in the experiment, the pause is not showing and no error message is displayed. It is not clear why changing routines which are not related to the routine with the code disables the code. And moreover, no error message is displayed. The experiment just goes on, but the pause message is not displayed.

[wakecarter]

.thisN doesn’t work online as of 2020.2 so updating an experiment from 2020.1 to 2020.2 will break references to thisN.

Several of our dissertation students are writing up data with blocks of identical trials because I didn’t manage to fix this in one experiment I reused from August…and none of them or their participants noticed and mentioned it to me.

[MarinaIosifian]

Thanks a lot!

Is there any other way to code the pause without .thisN?

[wakecarter]

Randomizing image without repeating in blocks?

Is the only difference a question in a text component? If so I would add a loop counter in Begin Experiment (loopIdx=0) add one to it each loop (loopIdx+=1) Then change the text component when loopIdx=10 text_1.text=‘new question ‘ Previously I would have used .thisN to count the loops but I’ve stopped using it because it has stopped working online

20 trials among the 150 rows in Excel

Since trials.thisN doesn’t work any more, you could set trialIdx=0 in a Begin Experiment code component tab and then add the following to the End Routine tab. trialIdx+=1 if trialIdx == 20: currentLoop.finished=True

[MarinaIosifian]

Thank you very much!