Dear Blair,

we have a similar problem and neither the manual nor this thread did help in solving it. The attached study does not run on some of our machines. I ran the DirectX diagnostics and it...

hi jzadra,

we exclusively use custom items and use javascript to time the appearance of the button as well as the presentation of text and so on.

show button:

function showButton(){
var...

Hi all,

I just registered ML on my Mac using Crossover. I opened an que-file and it
seemed to work.

So, besides bootcamp (which is basically Windows) you can run ML on a Mac
via at least...

Tom,

that was exactly what I was worried about. Also, the more advanced the HTML/JacaScript programming, the less reason there is to use ML at all. After all, we got ML so we wouldn't need to...

Dear Thomas,

thanks for the hint. There are tow problems though. First, I can't program JavaScript. For some extra features we have to ask a programmer who is not part of our lab to program them....

Blair,

what happened to this update? Just being curious,

Rene

Blair,

is the above mentioned feature implemented yet? Independent from an additional data file for strings variables as accomplished by the provided workaround using the database thingie, it...

Blair,

I don't know why, but I haven't tried this workaround out yet. I'll see into it next week and report to you after that;)

All the best,
Rene

Dear Blair, dear unknown stranger,

actually, that is exactly what we do using the custom items feature of ML.
In our experience, it is quite effective, i.e., participants usually believe they...

Blair,

is this fixed already? Unfortunately, a lot of people nowadays use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through text. As you know, we use essay type items for years now, as our main DVs. So, we...

Loranel,

were you able to program a n-back task based on the short example? Would it be possible for you to upload the complete task? That would be very helpful!

Thanks,
Rene

Jason,

would it be possible for you to upload the complete task? That would be very helpful!

Thanks,
Rene

Blair,

thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the altered syntax does not work. Like I said earlier, we've have that problem for a long while know, using all kinds of SPSS and ML versions. I...

But you can specify in ML if the posted from data is written as numeric or string. Why not add an additional option that lets you chose between string1 (within the raw data) and string2 (into an...

This will need an update, right?

wouldn't it be possible to intercept the input type (text area)? ML could, then, identify it and write it separately...

nope, it was applied on a later item. we tried to allign the scale horizontally (with the w.x parameter), but some items had very long anchors, that were cut of as a consequence. So we tried to use a...

sounds great!

But see also my other suggestion: one huge problem of ours would be solved, if certain string variables ould be written separately into an essay type'esque format;)

Blair,

here's the next suggestion. As a default ML writes strings as (A50) into the syntax. Why not let the user decide how long the strings should be? You could add another parameter or field...

Blair,

yesterday we tried to use a different style for an item. It simple didn't work. Regardless of the place (styles folder vs. experiemnt folder vs. both) ML did not find the style. That...

Hi Blair,

what would be a great adddition to ML would be the possibility to write all data - ragardless of item type - into a seperate text file. As you know, we often use custom items (with HTML...

Hi Jenn,

see here: http://www.empirisoft.com/Support/showthread.php?t=789
For a "communication task" within the saying-is-believing paradigm we used a similar setting. We used java script to time...

Hi Blair,

if I'm not wrong one can use styles only for all questionnaire or input elements.
I would prefer styles for all kind of elements, like question wording, scale anchors etc. separately.
...

Blair,

attached you'll find one single data file and a complete data file (both byvariablename) as well as an original syntax file, as generated by ML.

The error replicates on my work PC. SPSS...

Hi Blair,

we have basically the same problem. We record string variables (Ss generate descriptions of a target person), but they are truncuated. However, when I try to modify (or even attempt to...

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Attached you'll find our final version of the experiment. As for the background: it's a German version of the Saying-is-believing paradigm. We chose the custom item...

Hi there,

somehow - in a newer, extended version of this questionnaire - data seems to be written properly...

I'll get back to you if we encounter further similar problems.

Best
Rene

Blair,

the solution is even more simpler than using a hidden variable (which works, too). One needs only to squeeze in a name tag.

Instead of

<form method="post"><input type="submit"...

Thanks Blair! I'll see what I can do about it. A hidden variable sounds not too bad...

What about the data? What did I do wrong? Is there another way to use one template, but with different...

forgot the attachement...

Blair, I have figured out how to do the transition from custom html to DRT (or whatever was wrong, is right now), but there seems to be some problem with one item. Our demographics item always...

Hi there,

I am using Windows (via Bootcamp) with both my iMac (core duo) and Macbook Pro (C2D). It is fully functional and both ML und DRT run just fine.

Best,
Rene