{"id":133,"date":"2013-10-24T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T09:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychotech\/?p=133"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T09:32:56","slug":"e-prime-upgrade-key-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/2013\/10\/24\/e-prime-upgrade-key-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Prime upgrade: Key differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key point:<\/b> Set &#8216;PreRelease&#8217; to 0 [zero] if sending triggers to eeg\/eye-trackers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Details:<\/b><br \/>\nAt the start of term, Psychology upgraded out version of E-Prime from 2.08 to 2.010<\/p>\n<p>So, what are the important changes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When you open an existing E-Studio (es2) file that was written in a previous version , the new version, E-Prime will convert it to the new format (after getting your consent). You will then no longer be able to open that source file using the old version of E-Prime.<br \/>\n<b>We have not noticed any problems so far with any converted programs.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>If you create a NEW E-Studio program, some of the default settings have changed. In particular:\n<ul>\n<li>On the <em>Duration\/Input<\/em> tab on all E-Objects (e.g. <em>TextDisplay<\/em>) the setting new default for &#8216;<em>PreRelease<\/em>&#8216; has changed from from &#8216;<em>same as duration<\/em>&#8216; to &#8216;<em>0<\/em>&#8216; [zero]. This is generally a good idea EXCEPT for Eye tracker\/EEG experiments that send triggers across to the other system.<br \/>\n<b>Out tests have shown that changing this to 0 [zero] is required for event triggers to work properly.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other settings to be aware of:\n<ul>\n<li>on all E-objects (sessionproc, textDisplay objects,..) , in the <em>Properties\/Common tab\/script generation<\/em> section, there are 2 settings<br \/>\n<em>Generate PreRun<\/em> and <em>Generate PostRun<\/em> worth consideration. See the E-Prime built-in help, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/downloads\/EPrimeNewFeaturesGuide.pdf\" title=\"E-Prime new features guide\" target=\"_blank\">New Features Guide<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions or need further help, then please feel free to contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/allenj\/\">me.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>John Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key point: Set &#8216;PreRelease&#8217; to 0 [zero] if sending triggers to eeg\/eye-trackers. Details: At the start of term, Psychology upgraded out version of E-Prime from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/2013\/10\/24\/e-prime-upgrade-key-differences\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hsstech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}