Using a slider and a press button in the same window

[Talor_Shamash]

Hi,
I’m not very experienced with Psychopy and would love to get some help.
I wrote a simple code for an experiment that asks the subject to choose a certain amount of money between 0 to X, using a slider, than press a continue button (using the mouse) to move to the next amount (total of 4 times for 4 different amounts of money).
The thing is that the slider doesn’t slide. I think that the cause to this is the “continue” button, since the slider works fine when I remove the button (and instead give a time limitation). The continue button is a circle shape, that when you press on it, you move to the next window.I actually need it to be not limited by time so the “solution” I described above is not useful to me.
How can I solve it- keep the continue button and still have the slider slider to slide?
Thank you.

[Omidrezaa]

Hi @Talor_Shamash.

What do you mean the slider does not slide? Do you mean that pressing the circle would end the routine without any slider ratings? If so, check this topic:

Force Response for Slider

Hi all, As I found in several posts, in order for the slider to be drawn in online experiments, we need to define another component (say a mouse and a box with the label of “NEXT”) so participants first respond to the slider and then click on the box. The problem with this method is that if someone clicks on the box, it will go to the next trial, without responding to the slider. I used the following code to stop this and it works. However, now if someone clicks on the screen before the mouse …

I had this issue in the online experiment, but you can use the same method for local experiments. Alternatively, you can use this code:

if smy_slider.getRating() and my_mouse.isPressedIn(my_circle):
    continueRoutine = False

[Talor_Shamash]

Hi Omidrezaa,

Thank you for your help.
By saying that it doesn’t “slide” I mean that when I try to move marker it doesn’t slide. Instead, I can only move it by clicking on the slider’s bar itself. If I try to describe how it looks, it’s like the marker “jumps” to where I click on the bar, but I cannot hold the marker and drag it to the place I want.
The circle doesn’t end until I press the “continue” button, so that is not the problem.

[Omidrezaa]

Thanks for the explanation. I think you can solve this issue by setting the Granularity to 0 in the builder. Check the screenshot below. 0 is for continuous scale and 1 is for integer scale (which jumps between values and you cannot slide).

[Talor_Shamash]

@Omidrezaa

Granularity

Hi,
thank you again, but even with granularity=0 it still happens.
I really think it has something to do with the “press to continue button”, because when I take this requirement to press a button to continue off, and instead do the slider assignment time limited, the slider works just fine.