Text component does not appear on the screen

Online experiments
1

Hi all,

First of all, I want to thanks people in this forum. I made an experiment using slider with keyboard input and it worked fine for your enormous helps.

This time I tried to make a practice trial which include key instructions using text component in builder view. This sounds easy, but when I added an additional text component, the text fail to be appear on the screen.

My slider routine consists of the following components:

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First, code_8 set random anchor as:

Current_anchor = randint(0,101)

code 9 for keyboard control over slider, at begin routine:

Slider_practicel.recordRating(Current_anchor)

and at each frame as codeJS:

arrowKeys = psychoJS.eventManager.getKeys({keyList:['left', 'right']});
if (arrowKeys.includes('left')) {
    Slider_practicel.recordRating(Slider_practicel.getRating()-1);
    }
if (arrowKeys.includes('right')) {
    Slider_practicel.recordRating(Slider_practicel.getRating()+1);
    }

code 12 is for preventing key press and instruction text.

at begin routine:

response_wait = False
text_instr = f'adjust slider using left and right arrow

, at Each Frame:

if 'left' in arrowKeys or 'right' in arrowKeys:
    response_wait = True
    text_def = f'Make a response by pressing arrow down.'

and my textStim is:

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The problem as indicated above is that this text component does not appear on the screen with the slider. What prevents the textStim from being on the screen?

(Sld_img is an image at the center of the screen which changes with slider values and it seems nothing to do with this issue.)

Thank you

2

Some things to try out (just to pinpoint the problem). Do any of the scenarios below work out?

  • Move text to top of timeline
  • Put a fixed text in the Text, like “Testing 123”
  • Disable the slider
3

It sounds odd… I’ve tried the things you listed and synced my original backup code (the same thing above), but the text appears from nowhere! Anyway, thank you for answer!

4

Then I’d like to take look if that’s OK. Could you share it via gitlab with tpronk? Searching for experiments on Pavlovia — PsychoPy v2021.1

5

No problem. I added you as a developer to my project.

6

I just read your post more carefully. Did you mean that the text does appear, so the problem is fixed?

7

Sorry for confusing words. The text successfully appeared and problems were solved, though I dont know how it was fixed.

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8

No worries, happy it worked out (though in mysterious ways :slight_smile: