Black Screen

[vumrikar]

Hi,

Can someone please check my input file and tell me why it's not working! I've tried everything, but only a blank, black screen shows up when I try to run the file.

[jarvis24]

I think it may be that Excel is saving your csv files with semi-colons rather than commas. Please see if this helps:

www.empirisoft.com/Support/showthread.php?t=51

Blair

[vumrikar]

Yeah, I checked the regional settings, and everything is alerady set to "United States." The file still isn't working though.

[jarvis24]

Take a look at one of the unmodified sample input files that come with DirectRT. Try to run it--does it run ok? If so, make a change to it now that you have changed the regional settings. Does it still work?

I ask because changing the regional settings will not fix a file that has been previously saved under a different regional setting that uses semi-colons instead of commas. However once you change those semi-colons back to commas (e.g., using a search and replace in a text editor) then you should be fine from then on.

[jarvis24]

I just revised the file you posted above so that it is now comma delimited rather than semi-colon delimited (you take a look at both files in a text editor like notepad.exe and compare differences). See if the revised versions works ok (it does here) and if any changes you make will run ok (i.e., changes made under the new regional settings).

[vumrikar]

Hi, Thanks so much for the help! Yes, the file finally works now, but I can't see my stimuli (images) even though they are saved in a folder called "stim," which is in the same folder as the input file. Is there a specific image format (i.e. jpeg, bmp, gif) that the images need to be in?