Vernon Warden Reading Test

Hi there,

I certainly like you last idea. You could try this with two questions, one containing a time out. Answer one and not the other, then look at the data after the survey timed out. If you have data, you know the answer to your last idea.
The function "show text" cannot display text in separate lines. In order to achieve this, you would have to separate the text into parts, each containing as many characters as can be displayed on the screen or how many you would like in each line. Put each part of the text into one column of your table and call upon each column after each other using "show text" in your task:

table
FirstPart SecondPart ThirdPart ...

task
...
show text @1 [starting coordinate x] [starting coordinate y]
show text @2 [starting coordinate x] [starting coordinate y]
...

and so on. Out of experience, a difference of 40 pixel between the lines of text are more than enough for font arial 16
With the new version of PsyToolkit you usually do not need the function draw off/draw on. If you place an image on the screen using "show bitmap" and afterwards use "show text", the text will appear ontop of the bitmap, if they both share the same coordiantes (no coordinates automatically show text or image in the centre of the screen). When using "readmouse" while using also a huge bitmap, for example, you need to define the range of stimuli being read for the function "readmouse". Otherwise you might not get the reading you intended. In the case of one bitmap and 3 texts:

task
...
show bitmap [yourimage]
show text [firsttext] -50 0
show text [secondtext] 0 0
show text [thirdtext] 50 0
readmouse 2 5000 range 2 4
set $answer bitmap-under-mouse MOUSE_X MOUSE_Y range 2 4
...