Text string input field in Builder

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I am using PsychoPy3 and am attempting to insert a field where the participants can type responses. I found some really useful script online (https://github.com/jacanterbury/PsychoPy-snippets) which runs perfectly on my laptop. When I copy the code displayed in the ‘code properties box’ into my own experiment, however, it’s not displaying the words I type. Is there an obvious reason for this? Is there more code / and additional box to tick that I’m missing…? There’s no error that shows up and it allows me to go to the next trial without issue.

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As well as the code, you need to set the text component to update in response to the variable content on every frame.

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Thank you so much for your response, Michael.

I have included a text component with $inputText in the text box of its properties and inputText = “” in the Begin Experiment box of the code. Is this what you mean?

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And next to the text field, have you selected that it should update on every frame (i.e. screen refresh)?

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I have, yes. Anything else I should be doing…?

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Have you checked the following?:

  • Size (the default 0.1 won’t show anything if units is pixel)
  • Colour (black on black?)
  • Position

Jan

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