How to test whether multiple elements were selected?

[rhododendron]

Hello,

I am currently trying to implement three scales as a post-sentence comprehension task. Ideally, participants should not be able to proceed unless they made selections on each scale. So far, my implementation does only work for one scale, while all other scales are ignored. So far I have attempted to use a button press to check all three scales:

newButton("validation", "Confirm")
     .settings.center()
     .print()
     .wait( getScale("comprehensibility_prac3","comprehensibility_prac2","comprehensibility_prac" ).test.selected()
           .failure(
              newText("timedout","<b>Please rate the sentence using the scale!</b>")
                  .settings.css("font-size", "19px")
                  .settings.css("font-family","times-new")
                  .settings.color("red")
                  .settings.center()
                  .print() )
)

I have also tried to nest the tests, but it did not work:

newButton("validation", "Confirm")
     .settings.center()
     .print()
     .wait( getScale("comprehensibility_prac3" ).test.selected()
           .failure(
              newText("timedout","<b>Please rate the sentence using the scale!</b>")
                  .settings.css("font-size", "19px")
                  .settings.css("font-family","times-new")
                  .settings.color("red")
                  .settings.center()
                  .print() )
           .success(
              getScale("comprehensibility_prac2").test.selected()
           .failure(
              newText("timedout","<b>Please rate the sentence using the scale!</b>")
                  .settings.css("font-size", "19px")
                  .settings.css("font-family","times-new")
                  .settings.color("red")
                  .settings.center()
                  .print() )
)
)

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Best,

Ana-Maria

[Jeremy]

Hello Ana-Maria,

Your reasoning is on the right track, but things work slightly differently: tests embedded in a success command won’t count as conjoined to the main test. For that, you have the and command. You can do this:

newTrial(
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac1", 8).print(),
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac2", 8).print(),
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac3", 8).print()
    ,
    newButton("validation", "Confirm")
        .center()
        .print()
        .wait( 
            getScale("comprehensibility_prac3" ).test.selected()
            .and( getScale("comprehensibility_prac2").test.selected() )
            .and( getScale("comprehensibility_prac1").test.selected() )
            .failure(
                newText("timedout","<b>Please use all the scales!</b>")
                    .css("font-size", "19px")
                    .css("font-family","times-new")
                    .color("red")
                    .center()
                    .print()     
            )
        )
)

Note that the error message will appear whenever any scale is unselected

If you want scale-specific messages, you could conjoin all three tests to a main test, so you can apply test-specific failures:

newTrial(
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac1", 8).print(),
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac2", 8).print(),
    newScale("comprehensibility_prac3", 8).print()
    ,
    defaultText
        .css("font-size", "19px")
        .css("font-family","times-new")
        .color("red")
        .center()
    ,
    newButton("validation", "Confirm")
        .center()
        .print()
        .wait( 
            newVar("dummy", 1).test.is(1)
                .and( getScale("comprehensibility_prac3" ).test.selected().failure( 
                    newText("timedout3","<b>Please use scale 3!</b>").print()
                ) )
                .and( getScale("comprehensibility_prac2" ).test.selected().failure( 
                    newText("timedout2","<b>Please use scale 2!</b>").print()
                ) )
                .and( getScale("comprehensibility_prac1" ).test.selected().failure( 
                    newText("timedout1","<b>Please use scale 1!</b>").print()
                ) )
        )
)

Jeremy

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