's' parameter for fill-in-the-blank items

Hi,

When I try to adjust the 's' parameter for fill-in-the-blank items to increase the number of lines (eg. s3), the height of the response area changes okay, but the response text size shrinks and the response area colour changes. Also, their response is unrestricted by number of lines as they can use more than three lines. Is this what is supposed to happen and have I misunderstood the purpose of the parameter?

Regards,

Luke

Strange--can you send me a copy of your que file via support@...

Any information on this problem?

I am having a hard time getting my text boxes increase in size when adding either the 'h' and 'w' or the 's' parameter; or all three together.

More specifically, I want to give the option for subjects to write more than one line and to make the box look bigger (but not as big as an essay box).
Do parameters have to come in a specific order? I am adding a time parameter and an 'n' parameter too.

Any ideas?

Can you post or send us the que file?

I am having the same issue with the fill-in-the-blank item (v2008.1.22).

A parameter of (s1) results in a single line box that will not allow for entry of characters beyond the size of that box. A parameter of (s1.5) or larger (I've tested s2, s3 as well) changes the size of the response box but the font size is smaller, the font colour is black instead of green, and an unlimited number of characters can be input into the response box. Additionally, with a parameter greater than (s1.5), the data for this item is stored in a text file and not the spss file. It seems that under these parameter conditions, the fill-in-the-blank item is being treated by ML as an essay item with a smaller response box.

Based on pilot testing using the essay item type, I need to be able to limit participant responses to one to two lines of text - incredibly participants want to respond with paragraphs of text. I have also unsuccessfully tried the parameter (s2, n255) to limit the characters that are allowed to be input but that string returns a single line text box and limits the characters to that single line of text.

Is there a solution to this issue? I'm having the same problem...

Hi adjfay.

What version of MediaLab (ver. 20xx.x.xxx) are you using?

Hi, it's 2010.3.0.102.

Thanks

This bug is fixed in MediaLab version 2012.4.131.