What are you trying to achieve?:
I am trying to display blocks of 100 to 150 words and people press the space bar to go to the next block. I have 13 blocks
What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
There is no error. I got it to left align correctly, so all text starts from the same horizontal point, but VERTICALLY it jumps around. Some of the shorter text start closer to the middle and the longer tests start from closer to the top. If posisble, I want them all to start in the same place near the top left of the screen.
Also, I am not controlling when the text wraps, but it wraps seemingly whever it wants and I dont know how to fix this.
Yeah, it is for an online one. I wanted participants to not have to jump around each time block starts and I dont want to have to manually adjust the starting point for each.
It seems like the starting coordinates of 0,0 are the center of the textbox. Is there a way to make that starting coordinate be the top left?
Also, I cannot find the default automatic wraping number, so I am having trouble adjusting it to match each other.
As I said, I don’t think there is at the moment as vertical alignment / anchoring is not yet implemented in the PsychoJS text stimulus.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by “match each other”. The wrap width can be defined in terms of e.g. norm units, where e.g. 2 would be the whole screen from left to right. Do you mean you would want the wrap width to be variable so the text stays in the same Y coordinate irrespective of its length? That sounds like a lot of trial and error to me
Yeah sorry, I wasn’t being very clear. What I mean was, if I can get the first letter of the first word in the block of text to align in the same set location… then it will be the same in each repeat. I called this matched but that was confusing.
I think I might just do what I can to make sure they start in the same spot with the X axis and itll be OK. It isn’t a reaction time study, so it should be OK I guess. I will keep trying!
