Non-breaking space in items?

[mawilson]

I’m making an experiment that is mostly centered word-by-word SPR, but for a couple of items I want to present two short words together at once. I tried doing this by adding   between the words (with no space), but that just literally displayed these words, rather than displaying these words on the same screen. Is there a way I can do this by modifying the examples in the stimuli file, rather than having to manually set this up in main.js using the ability of the DashedSentence controller to take a list of strings?

I’ve put up a MWE here: https://farm.pcibex.net/r/UiwhPx/. Here’s the code for it:

main.js:

PennController.ResetPrefix(null)

Sequence(
    'example',
    SendResults()
)

Template(
    'example.csv', item => ['example',
        'DashedSentence',
        {s: item.sentence, display: 'in place'}
    ]
)

example.csv:

sentence
"In this sentence, I would like these words to be displayed together."

• This topic was modified 1 month ago by mawilson. Reason: attempt to fix formatting

[mawilson]

I ended up figuring something out; here’s the code I used in case it’s of use to anyone else.

PennController.ResetPrefix(null)

Sequence(
    'example',
    SendResults()
)

Template('example.csv', item => {
    var sentence = item.sentence.split(' ')
    var s_array = []
    for (var word of sentence) {
        word = word.replace(' ', ' ')
        s_array.push(word)
    }
    sentence = s_array
    
    return [
        'example',
        'DashedSentence', 
        {s: sentence, display: 'in place'}
    ] 
})

The basic idea is to modify the item prior to running each trial. I split the sentence on spaces (which won’t split the literal  ). Replace the  s with actual spaces, and then pass that array to the controller instead of the sentence stored in the csv.

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by mawilson. Reason: make MWE more minimal
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