basic installation

[achim]

Sorry, a very basic installation question:

I installed the latest version of ibex on my stand-alone server (macOS, apache)
The default experiment runs normally (experiment.html)
I added PennController.js to th folder js_includes.
I restarted the default experiment: no difference.

What do I need to do in order to activate PennController on my machine?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Jeremy. Reason: more appropriate in support

[Jeremy]

Hello,

PennController is activated as soon as you add PennController.js to the js_includes folder. If you didn’t change anything in the main script file of your experiment, you won’t see any difference, as PennController should be 100% compatible with native Ibex.

Jeremy

[achim]

Thanks, Jeremy. So I did this and followed the Tutorial.
– Copied PennController to js_includes
– Copied the other files in data_includes and chunk_includes
– inserted the sample code in main.js, e.g.

newTrial(
         newText("The fish swim in a tank which is perfectly round")
         .print()
         ,
         newImage("2fishRoundTank.png")
         .print()
         ,
         newKey(" ")
         .wait()
         )

– Opened experiment.html in browser

– Display “Loading, please wait…” plus the Debug window, but nothing else.
– No errors show up in the debug window. If I introduce errors in main.js the debug window gives an error message, so main.js seemms to be interpreted alright.

So I feel I’m almost there, but I don’t understand why nothing else shows up on my page.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Achim

[Jeremy]

Hi Achim,

Did you make sure to place your resource files (eg. 2fishRoundTank.png) in the www folder, as mentioned here? Using chunk_includes will only work for CSV tables and HTML files.

Jeremy

[gmzunino]

Hi!
I am having the same problem: “Display “Loading, please wait…” plus the Debug window, but nothing else.”
It happens even without any extra file. A week ago I was able to run a very similar script without any problem.

[Jeremy]

Hi,

Are you running a local installation, or are you running your experiment on the (PC)Ibex Farm?

You can try to open the web console to check for any error message: https://kb.mailster.co/how-can-i-open-the-browsers-console/

Jeremy

[gmzunino]

I am on PCIbex Farm. Thanks, Jeremy, I´ll try to check that.
Gabi

[Jeremy]

You should double-check that you really have no extra file, especially no files ending with upper-case extensions, like image.PNG in Resources

Jeremy

[gmzunino]

Hi, Jeremy.
It seems that the problem was exactly that: upper-case in the one file name.
Thank you so much.
Gabi

[achim]

Hello,

that was it: I had *copied* resource files from chunk_includes to www, not *moved*.
Being an Ibex newbie I’m sure I’ll be back with other questions, but for now it works!

Thank you for help your patience!

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