Reply To: Can we randomize time with newTimer() ?

[Jeremy]

Hi,

Indeed, you won’t need to use the Var method now that you’ve fixed the EventTime issue in R

.log is not a global PennController command: you either call it on a PennController element or on the closing parenthesis of a newTrial command. In either case, .log comes immediately after a closing parenthesis (ignoring any space or linebreak character separating the parentehsis and the period). You get an error because you wrote .log after a comma, the way you would insert a reference to an element using newX or getX

This is how you would call .log on the closing parenthesis of newTrial:

newTrial("blocks-timer-trial",
  newText("blocks-text","Espere...")
    .cssContainer({
      "font-size":"30px",
      "position": "absolute",
      "margin-top": "255px",    //places it in the middle of the screen 
      "white-space": "nowrap"})
    .center()
    .print()
  ,
  newTimer("blocks-text-timer",1500)
    .start()
    .wait()
  ,
  getText("blocks-text").remove()
  ,
  getVar("BLOCKS").global().set( v => Date.now() - v )
)
.log( "BlocksTimer" , getVar("BLOCKS") )

Jeremy