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Keypress demo#
This example demonstrates the different keypress-gathering techniques available in the ExperimentController class.
exp_name: KeypressDemo
date: 2024-11-19 15_32_27.023964
file: /home/circleci/project/examples/experiments/keypress.py
participant: foo
session: 001
2024-11-19 15:32:27,024 - INFO - Expyfun: Using version 2.0.0.dev0 (requested dev)
2024-11-19 15:32:27,024 - INFO - Expyfun: Setting up sound card using pyglet backend with 2 playback channels
2024-11-19 15:32:27,214 - WARNING - Expyfun: Mismatch between reported stim sample rate (24414) and device sample rate (44100.0). Experiment Controller will resample for you, but this takes a non-trivial amount of processing time and may compromise your experimental timing and/or cause artifacts.
2024-11-19 15:32:27,214 - INFO - Expyfun: Setting up screen
2024-11-19 15:32:27,243 - EXP - Expyfun: Set screen visibility True
2024-11-19 15:32:27,252 - INFO - Initialized [640 480] window on screen XlibScreen(display=<pyglet.canvas.xlib.XlibDisplay object at 0x7f25553adba0>, x=0, y=0, width=1400, height=900, xinerama=0) with DPI 69.73
2024-11-19 15:32:27,252 - INFO - Expyfun: Initializing dummy triggering mode
2024-11-19 15:32:27,253 - INFO - Expyfun: Initialization complete
2024-11-19 15:32:27,253 - EXP - Expyfun: Participant: foo
2024-11-19 15:32:27,253 - EXP - Expyfun: Session: 001
2024-11-19 15:32:30,832 - INFO - Expyfun: Exiting
2024-11-19 15:32:30,834 - EXP - Expyfun: Audio stopped and reset.
# Author: Dan McCloy <drmccloy@uw.edu>
#
# License: BSD (3-clause)
import expyfun.analyze as ea
from expyfun import ExperimentController, building_doc
print(__doc__)
isi = 0.5
wait_dur = 3.0 if not building_doc else 0.0
msg_dur = 3.0 if not building_doc else 0.0
with ExperimentController(
"KeypressDemo",
screen_num=0,
window_size=[640, 480],
full_screen=False,
stim_db=0,
noise_db=0,
output_dir=None,
participant="foo",
session="001",
version="dev",
) as ec:
ec.wait_secs(isi)
###############
# screen_prompt
pressed = ec.screen_prompt(
"press any key\n\nscreen_prompt(" f"max_wait={wait_dur})",
max_wait=wait_dur,
timestamp=True,
)
ec.write_data_line("screen_prompt", pressed)
if pressed[0] is None:
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = f"{pressed[0]} pressed after {round(pressed[1], 4)} secs"
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
##################
# wait_for_presses
ec.screen_text(f"press some keys\n\nwait_for_presses(max_wait={wait_dur})" "")
screenshot = ec.screenshot()
ec.flip()
pressed = ec.wait_for_presses(wait_dur)
ec.write_data_line("wait_for_presses", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed after {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
############################################
# wait_for_presses, relative to master clock
ec.screen_text(
f"press some keys\n\nwait_for_presses(max_wait={wait_dur}, " "relative_to=0.0)"
)
ec.flip()
pressed = ec.wait_for_presses(wait_dur, relative_to=0.0)
ec.write_data_line("wait_for_presses relative_to 0.0", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed at {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
##########################################
# listen_presses / wait_secs / get_presses
ec.screen_text(
f"press some keys\n\nlisten_presses()\nwait_secs({wait_dur})" "\nget_presses()"
)
ec.flip()
ec.listen_presses()
ec.wait_secs(wait_dur)
pressed = ec.get_presses() # relative_to=0.0
ec.write_data_line("listen / wait / get_presses", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed after {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
####################################################################
# listen_presses / wait_secs / get_presses, relative to master clock
ec.screen_text(
"press a few keys\n\nlisten_presses()"
f"\nwait_secs({wait_dur})\nget_presses(relative_to=0.0)"
""
)
ec.flip()
ec.listen_presses()
ec.wait_secs(wait_dur)
pressed = ec.get_presses(relative_to=0.0)
ec.write_data_line("listen / wait / get_presses relative_to 0.0", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed at {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
###########################################
# listen_presses / while loop / get_presses
disp_time = wait_dur
countdown = ec.current_time + disp_time
ec.call_on_next_flip(ec.listen_presses)
ec.screen_text(
"press some keys\n\nlisten_presses()" f"\nwhile loop {disp_time}\nget_presses()"
)
ec.flip()
while ec.current_time < countdown:
cur_time = round(countdown - ec.current_time, 1)
if cur_time != disp_time:
disp_time = cur_time
# redraw text with updated disp_time
ec.screen_text(
"press some keys\n\nlisten_presses() "
f"\nwhile loop {disp_time}\nget_presses()"
)
ec.flip()
pressed = ec.get_presses()
ec.write_data_line("listen / while / get_presses", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed after {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ec.wait_secs(isi)
#####################################################################
# listen_presses / while loop / get_presses, relative to master clock
disp_time = wait_dur
countdown = ec.current_time + disp_time
ec.call_on_next_flip(ec.listen_presses)
ec.screen_text(
"press some keys\n\nlisten_presses()\nwhile loop "
f"{disp_time}\nget_presses(relative_to=0.0)"
)
ec.flip()
while ec.current_time < countdown:
cur_time = round(countdown - ec.current_time, 1)
if cur_time != disp_time:
disp_time = cur_time
# redraw text with updated disp_time
ec.screen_text(
"press some keys\n\nlisten_presses()\nwhile "
f"loop {disp_time}\nget_presses(relative_to=0.0)"
""
)
ec.flip()
pressed = ec.get_presses(relative_to=0.0)
ec.write_data_line("listen / while / get_presses relative_to 0.0", pressed)
if not len(pressed):
message = "no keys pressed"
else:
message = [
f"{key} pressed at {round(time, 4)} secs\n" "" for key, time in pressed
]
message = "".join(message)
ec.screen_prompt(message, msg_dur)
ea.plot_screen(screenshot)
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 3.849 seconds)