Hi Marguerite!

I think I may be able to help. If MedIaLab is overwriting the fill in the blank answers, I'm assuming you are trying to save them all to the same file name-something like stim.txt. If so and you want DirectRT to randomly present these four MediaLab answers, I would suggest that you would want MediaLab to save the fill in the blanks in 4 separate files. Here is what I would try:

1) Write each of the four fill in the blanks to its own text file. Let's call them stim1.txt through stim4.txt.

2) Make an input file for DirectRT with four trials (one line for each of the MediaLab created text files.

3) In the stim column of each trial, type # followed by the pathway for each different text file. So stim1.txt goex in trial 1, stim2.txt goes in trial 2 and so on.

4) Randomize the four trials by typing the same number in the RGW column of the input file.

Please let me know if this helps. If not, I'm happy to help find a solution.

Cheers!

Psychboiler