Hello! I’m using PsychoPy 1.90.1 and windows 10. I’m building a linguistic experiment and I’d like for the participants to rewrite a sentence they are presented with. I started using the builder but then changed to the coder to try and modify the code. Adding some lines to the code for the keyboa…

Thank you, @dvbridges !! That solved my problem :slight_smile: And it was such a quick response, what a great surprise (it’s my first time in the forum and I thought it would take a while to get an answer)! And since we are here… I guess that if shift keys to capitalize are not working neither are…

No problem @alba . If you do want capitalisation to work, you could use the following for “Every Frame”. The alternative is to use iohub, which has options of checking whether a particular key on the keyboard is down or up. That might make a more fitting solution, but for now: keys = event.getKeys()…

Hi there @dvbridges ! Sorry for the delay, I’ve been crazy busy over here. I introduced a loop in the builder version which reads the sentences from a .xlsx file. Then the output file I get is a .csv which contains these weird transformations of special characters. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong…

It looks like PsychoPy is doing its job, and using several bytes to represent non-ASCII characters (using UTF-8 encoding). It is probably the case that the software you are using to open your data file is not Unicode aware, or at least, doesn’t default to assume that the text is UTF-8 encoded (let m…

Thank you Michael, that solved it! I feel a bit silly though, I should have looked for a topic on messy excel data… sorry!

I know this is an old thread, but hopefully someone may see it and respond…I have been trying to work out how to write to the screen for weeks now and this is the first code I have been successful with. Thank you! My question is, how do I also allow it to accept numbers as well as letters? I’m sure…

You can probably just remove the defensive coding to only allow letters. i.e. replace: elif keys[0] in allLetters: textFill+=keys[0] # Adds character to text if in alphabet. with something like: else: textFill += keys[0] # Adds character to text (keep the indentation at the sa…

Brilliant! thanks Michael that worked a treat

Sorry, one more question, I’m using the above code as part of a loop where it is reading a maths question from my Excel spreadsheet. This code allows me to write the answer to the screen, but what would the command be to move to the next math question in the sequence after they have typed their answ…

You could insert something like this somewhere in your list of checks above: elif keys[0] == 'return': # record the answer in your data file: thisExp.addData('answer', textFill) # go on to the next trial: continueRoutine = False One other thing: the code above is structured around …

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HI @djan4848, this is a Python code solution for writing keypresses to the screen. You would have to go to code component, change the code type to “Both” and translate your Python code into JavaScript, because currently the translation of code components is manual. However, there is already a solution from another post. Have a look at the following:

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