styles won't work

[Rene Kopietz]

Blair,

yesterday we tried to use a different style for an item. It simple didn't work. Regardless of the place (styles folder vs. experiemnt folder vs. both) ML did not find the style. That happened on two different machines. Also, ML did not save as... the way it was supposed to. It always saved the file into the styles folder, regardless of the destination I chose.

Best
Rene

PS: I believe I use the most recent version of ML.

[jarvis24]

Was the style being applied at the first item in one of your questionnaires? If so, try applying it in the experiment (.exp) file where you list the que file instead. I've heard of a problem like this before and it seems there is some reluctance on MediaLab's part to apply a style when it's requested on the first item of a que file.

[Rene Kopietz]

nope, it was applied on a later item. we tried to allign the scale horizontally (with the w.x parameter), but some items had very long anchors, that were cut of as a consequence. So we tried to use a smaller font (thus, my other request).

[jarvis24]

Mm. Will look at your other request. Would have to see the que along with the quickstyle file.

[eposea]

I followed every instruction and the quickstyle didnt work. I tried to get an item to show up with a black background, thus I left an "$black" in the parameter area with () and the appropriate file in the experiment folder, and nothing changed. Also the quickstyle (mlq file) did not save to the specified experiment folder as chosen; I could only see it thru the "save-as" window, although I did end up dragging it into the exp folder, and still, nothing.

[jarvis24]

If you run the que file by itself (i.e., with no .exp file) does it still not work? If so, could you zip and attach the que and quickstyle files? Will see if I can replicate the problem here.