Update in the general settings page (audioLib) - sounddevice support

Eitan_Hemed · September 28, 2017, 2:32pm

Hi,

under this page, it is specified that only pyo and pgame are supported as sound libraries, even though under this one it says that sounddevice is supported as well.

Thanks!
Eitan

Michael · September 28, 2017, 8:58pm

Hi Eitan,

The API documents are automatically generated from comments in the source code and hence they should usually be up-to-date (and in fact they might even be ahead of the currently released version of PsychoPy).

The other pages on the website you linked to are manually edited and hence they can easily get out of date, as you’ve noticed. If you (or anyone else in the PsychoPy community) notices an error, you can directly edit those pages on the GitHub site, e.g. here for your particular page:

github.com

psychopy/psychopy/blob/master/docs/source/general/prefs.rst

Preferences
====================================

The Preferences dialog allows to adjust general settings for different parts of PsychoPy. The preferences settings are saved in the configuration file :ref:`userPrefs.cfg<cleanPrefs>`. The labels in brackets for the different options below represent the abbreviations used in the *userPrefs.cfg* file.

In rare cases, you might want to adjust the preferences on a per-experiment basis. See the API reference for the Preferences class :doc:`here</api/preferences>`.

.. _applicationSettings:

Application settings (App)
---------------------------
These settings are common to all components of the application (Coder and Builder etc)

show start-up tips (showStartupTips):
    Display tips when starting PsychoPy.

large icons (largeIcons):
    Do you want large icons (on some versions of wx on macOS this has no effect)?

default view (defaultView):

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i.e. you can make a change in the document by clicking on the pencil icon to enter the edit mode, and then submit a request that your changes get pulled into the current version of the docs. Documentation maintenance is a great way for even non-programmers to make a very useful contribution to an open source project like PsychoPy.

Eitan_Hemed · September 28, 2017, 9:22pm

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the info. I’ll add it to the documents soon!

Eitan

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Update in the general settings page (audioLib) - sounddevice support

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