show "too slow, please decide faster"

Oh, sure!

So, that basically is one of the tasks that needs changing:

task rating_weiblich1
table my_sounds_weiblich1
show bitmap fixpoint 0 -100 #1
delay 500
clear 1
show bitmap @1 0 -100 #2 bitmap ratefem, taken from table (from random table line)
sound @2
show bitmap wfem -300 200 #4
show bitmap sfem 300 200 #5
show bitmap empty -150 200 #6 emtpy circles that can be clicked
show bitmap empty -100 200 #7
show bitmap empty -50 200 #8
show bitmap empty 0 200 #9
show bitmap empty 50 200 #10
show bitmap empty 100 200 #11
show bitmap empty 150 200 #12
show bitmap nn1 -150 250
show bitmap nn2 -100 250
show bitmap nn3 -50 250
show bitmap nn4 0 250
show bitmap nn5 50 250
show bitmap nn6 100 250
show bitmap nn7 150 250
readmouse l 1 10000 range 5 11 # wait for left mouse click for 10sec
set $b bitmap-under-mouse MOUSE_X MOUSE_Y # which bitmap was clicked?
set $score expression $b - 4 # determine scale score
## now draw filled stimulus on the selected bitmap
set $p expression ( $score - 1 ) * 50 - 150 # determine X position of clicked bitmap
show bitmap crossed $p 200
delay 300
clear screen
delay 300
save BLOCKORDER BLOCKNAME TASKNAME $score RT @3

(bitmaps nn1 to nn7 are bitmaps of numbers that are shown under the circles of my rating scale so people also have a numerical anchor)

I hope this code is somewhat understandable. It does work, at least (except for the two mentioned problems)

Thank you for the link! I ran the demo of the task but when I waited for longer than 10 seconds to click, it simply went to the next question without a "please decide faster" message. One can also not see where on the scale they clicked (in my code based on the rating dogs experiment of yours they can, I thought that was a really great option!).
Is it possible to show such a message only when participants aren't fast enough or is this currently not an available option? Then I'll just tell my supervisor it's not possible.
Also, I haven't quite figured out yet how to make the audio stop if someone clicks before the sentence is spoken completely.
I'm sorry for all my questions, I'm new to this whole coding thing and not really experienced. Sadly, my supervisor has also never worked with Psytoolkit before.

We decided to use an experiment because we also need the reaction time and have various forms of randomization.
In surveys, there's the possibility of "if $variable == 1 then goto", is it possible to have something like this in experiments, too? I tried it to make sure (if $readmouse > 10000 then show bitmap tooslow) but it didn't work, of course. I feel like I'm probably missing the forest through the trees but I'm completely stumped right now.

Hello Alexandra!

To me, this makes a lot of sense. Sadly, if I try it, PTK shows following error:

ERROR: ifline_number_of_arguments in line: 60
>>> if STATUS == 3 show bitmap schneller
Problem: The number of parameters in the "if" statement is wrong.

Correct examples:

if STATUS == CORRECT

if $x == 10 && $y == 12 && $z != 8


TIP: Make sure that the elements are all seperated by spaces. Below a
wrong example of this:

Correct: if $x == 10
Correct: if STATUS == CORRECT
Incorrect: if $x==10
Incorrect: if STATUS ==CORRECT

The same error is shown if I change it to "if STATUS == TIMEOUT" or "if STATUS != CORRECT".
My experiment works the way I want it to (the scale in the experiment works just fine), the only thing my instructor wants that's missing now is this timeout message if they're too slow with clicking the Likert scale bitmaps.
Thank all of you for your help so far!