Great, the method is working as you've outlined it -- thank you! However, what I want it to do is to interrupt the current trial when the time limit expires (i.e., whether or not the participant has filled in the open-ended response yet). It does not appear that the MinMax setting or !meta command allows this to happen. In fact, in the manual it expressly says that it doesn't: "Note that the time-based skip is started at the onset of the trial from which it is called and is executed when the time expires. The skip will occur no matter where DirectRT is but will wait until the current trial has been completed (it will not interrupt a session mid-trial)."

Is there a work-around to this, i.e., a way to have DirectRT interrupt the session mid-trial and move on to the next trial (or session, if that's how I'll need to organize it)? It's not critical that we have this portion time-constrained in this fashion, but if there is a work-around I'd love to incorporate it.