[utkuturk]

I have solved the problem by using a dummy timer from this thread: https://www.pcibex.net/forums/topic/controller-or-timer-conditional/

I would be happy to know if there can be any improvement in this code.

Here’s the solution:

// Practice Trials
Template("PracticePreambles.csv", (row) =>
  newTrial(
    "practice",
    newTimer(300).start().wait(), //white screen before the trial
    newText("Preamble", row.preamble)
      .center()
      .cssContainer({ "margin-right": "1em" })
      .print(),
    newTimer("hurry", 3000).start(),
    newTimer("dummy", 1)
      .callback(
        newTextInput("answer")
          .settings.before(getText("Preamble"))
          .log("validate")
          .lines(1)
          .cssContainer("display", "flex")
          .print()
          .wait(
            getTextInput("answer")
              .test.text(/^(.{10,500})$/)
              .failure(
                newText("<b>Please write more.</b>")
                  .settings.color("red")
                  .print()
              )
          ),
        getTimer("hurry").stop()
      )
      .start(),
    getTimer("hurry").wait()
    // add timelimit
  )
    .log("Preamble", row.preamble) // add these three columns to the results lines of these Template-based trials
    .log("Condition", row.condition)
    .log("ItemNumber", row.itemnum)
);

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