Questions and issues surrounding Runner

[Xinzhu-Fang]

It seems that Runner is a new feature added in 2020 Changelog — PsychoPy v2023.2.3

Is there any documentation about it? I don’t see a section for it at Documentation — PsychoPy v2023.2.3

Wouldn’t it also be helpful to have a category for it on this forum?

I have issues with it. I don’t see the benefit of having it. And I am not alone.

Turn off Experiment Runner

Hello, I would like to be able to turn off the Experiment Runner, because it can be annoying feature to work with in the debugging stage. For example, I would like to print the output to the console below the editor, rather than in the Experiment Runner. Thank you!

Changelog — PsychoPy v2023.2.3 says the benefits of Runner are

• provides some ‘Alerts’ about things that might go wrong in their study #2646
• allows you to run/save/open a set of studies without opening a window for each one
• allows online studies to run locally in “debug” mode to test the study before uploading

Regarding

• provides some ‘Alerts’ about things that might go wrong in their study #2646

I am satisfied with the warning and error traceback from the old coder. Runner has given me false error traceback

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'trialList' referenced before assignment

OS (e.g. Win10): mac 10.15.4 PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2020.1.2 Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: y What are you trying to achieve?: I have this old exp that I can still run [github link removed after problem solved ]. I just refactored it: the stimuli are slightly different, but I meant to use the same paradigm [github link removed after problem solved ]. I copied the .psyexp file over, and when I run it, psychopy crushes after instruction presentation and gives me 2020-…

Regarding

• allows you to run/save/open a set of studies without opening a window for each one

Runner failed to distinguish files from different dir of the same name (whether clicked run from Builder or from Coder)

Bug report for the runner

when i save a tested program to another folder, remaining the original file name, just the location changed. Then i click the run icon in coder, the runner still refer to the .py file in original folder. I have to clear the runner list to force the runner can refer to the same name .py file in new folder. Saving to a new name .py file, it’s ok.

Here is another question:
how do I add a task using the plus sign in Runner? I clicked the plus sign and a file browser pops up, but I am allowed to choose a psyexp file, a py file, or a dir contain any of those two.

OS (e.g. Win10): mac 10.15.4
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2020.1.2
Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: y

[Xinzhu-Fang]

I am currently getting around Runner by
pip installed psychopy2020.1.2 into my conda python3 env
open the psyexp file in Builder, click “compile to script”
run the py script from python3 env in terminal

[anon73880559]

I was about to start a thread asking about documentation for Experiment Runner, but I see this thread already covers that. I would like to give this thread a bump.