Text responses in python: Input() function and dialogue boxes

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Additionally, if you are interested in using Dialogue Boxes in an online experiment, go to the post below. I managed to make it work using JavaScript. I essentially needed to use Dialogue boxes to collect input data in Mandarin Chinese. Currently, Psychopy do not have a dedicated component for text input. As such, Dialogue Boxes are the only means for colecting complex text input such as Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.

Text responses in JavaScript: Dialogue boxes

Description of the problem: I have a Pychopy experiment in which participants need to click on a figure to make a Dialogue Box appear on screen. I defined a function that is called when a person clicks on a figure. It runs well locally in Python. However, when running it online in Pavlovia, the translated Javascript code shows an error saying “psychoJS.gui.Dlg is not a constructor”. The code in Python (at the beginning of th eexperiment) def showTextBox(textAnimal, textOrder): textBox = g…