Store rating after timeout

[emos]

OS Win7
PsychoPy version 1.85
**Standard Standalone? y

Dear all, I’m new to psychopy, I have managed to build a decent script and I am struggling with the last bit: I have some rating scales that the volunteer can move left and right, and they timeout after 5.5s. I would like to log the rating that the scale shows at timeout time please, without using an accept button. Thanks

[Michael]

Hello, sorry for the delay. A similar question was recently asked here:

Log final response on rating timeout

Hi all, I’m trying to use rating-scales with fixed durations - the subject moves the marker back and forth until they’re happy, and then waits for the next rating scale. I really only want to use a 2-button response box (for… reasons) so I don’t want to have the accept button visible, or use an accept key - I want the logged data to be the final position of the marker on the scale, at the end of the trial duration. I seem to recall that this used to be quite easily done in earlier versions of …

and hopefully provides an answer for you as well?