storing fill-in-the-blank responses as numeric in SPSS

[Cassiopeia]

Okay, I'm REALLY having trouble with this now. Now, none of my fill-in-the-blank or essay data is storing at all: it's all just a bunch of "99"s and "ok"s. Please help!

[Cassiopeia]

Nope, and I'm kind of panicking. Although I did find out that I could use the "thought listings" option, and that recorded the data for a while. (And you can change the size of the thought listing box using the h, w, t, and l parameters.)

Except now I'm having a new problem: the data is recorded when the subject presses "enter," but not if the duration for that screen runs out. This is a big problem for me, since my experiment requires that subjects write for two whole minutes, and I need to use the duration option rather than the "press enter" option....

[jarvis24]

What version of MediaLab are you using? i.e., v200x.x.x?

[Cassiopeia]

I just checked the one computer in the lab that doesn't have a participant on it right now, and it says 2006.2.40. That said, I checked the version of the computer I built the program on a few days ago, and I want to say it was a 2004 version...but I'm not sure.

I saw in some of the other posts that upgrading can fix some problems. I'm borrowing a faculty member's computers (he's not my advisor, and he's being gracious), so I wouldn't want to ask him to pay for an upgrade. Are there any upgrades from what I've got that might help, and are free?


Thanks!

[jarvis24]

The 2006.2.40 version should be fine unless it's a bug I don't know about. Now are you talking about the fill in the blanks issue still or are you referring now to the thought listing solution you switched to? If it's the latter, could you post a copy of that?