Text component dictated by values in excel procedure file not working

[wakecarter]

I quite often put x in a cell instead of blank and then have code like:

if spreadsheetImage == 'x':
     thisImage = 'transparent.png'
else:
    thisImage = spreadsheetImage

Reusing routines and components is good practice.

Wakefield's Daily Tips

Reuse your routines If you are tempted to copy a routine in your experiment because you want another routine to do a similar thing, consider whether you can simply reuse the same routine. Routines can be reused either by adding them again to your flow or by adding a loop to repeat them. The advantages of this are: Your psyexp file will be smaller. Large psyexp files can become unresponsive in Builder. If you want to make a change to the routine, you only have to do it once rather than ch…

Wakefield's Daily Tips

Reuse your visual objects Similar to Wakefield's Daily Tips - #7 by wakecarter. If you use visual components, then they are all created during Begin Experiment and then updated as you change the parameters, whether every repeat or each frame. If you create visual objects in code, you should mimic this behaviour. Create the objects in a Begin Experiment code component tab, and then make changes in code. If you create visual objects in Begin Routine within a loop then you the memory load will in…