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Text Element

Text Element allows displaying text blocks for instructions and feedback. Element provides a variety of text decoration options, e.g. font, color and alignment selection. The text content can be always changed and reformatted at runtime.

Table of Contents [Hide/Show] Summary Properties Snapshots Practical Use     Creating a single textblock on a visual scene     Using the text element for delivering visual feedback Notes

Snapshots ¶

Text element in the EventIDE scene editor

Multiple textblocks with different fonts (inluding the symbol font), colors and visual effects applied

Multiple textblocks making an instruction screen

Practical Use ¶

Creating a single textblock on a visual scene ¶

1. Select Event where you want to place a textblock
2. Add Text Element into that event, the element will appear at the center of the screen
3. Select the element in the Element List
4. Edit the Text property of the element in the Property Panel. Use the return key to add new lines.
5. Adjust the size of element's rendering area in the Scene Editor with the mouse. Alternatevly, set the uniform font size by adjusting the AutoSize property.
6. Change the font, color and text alignment of the elementif nessesary, with the corresponding properties in the Property Panel
7. Adjust element's screen position, if nessesary
   

Using the text element for delivering visual feedback ¶

1. Add Text Element into a feedback event.
2. Create a Proxy Variable, for example, called FeedbackText, linked to the Text property of the element.
3. Add the following code into any snippet called before activation of the feedback event in each trial (Snippet suggestion- OnDeactivated of the previous event or OnActivating of the parent event)
   

 // Check the trial outcome. Result and RT just other user variables
if (Result==true)
{
FeedbackText="Correct";
}
else
{
FeedbackText="Wrong";
}

if (RT>5000)
FeedbackText="Too Late";

Notes ¶

If you use the transparent background in the parent event and the global backgound is bright, then you may discover that a tiny border around the text is rendered by the Text Element. To prevent this rendering issue from happening you can either set a solid background for the parent event or switch-off the antialiasing in properties of Text Element.

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