Yet another stupid question... about my pictures not loading.

(and this is why I failed programming 101 in college...)

I'm trying to have one of three pictures show in the middle of the page, and then have my labels change, so that I have one of 8 "stimulus labels" that need to be matched up with the picture shown in the middle.

I'm having a problem however.

I keep getting this -

<page summary>

<picture targetA>

/items: Unable to load the picture 'C:\Documents and Settings\Greenman\Desktop\Thesis\wheelchair1.jpg'. Verify that the file exists and is of a supported format.

<picture targetB>

/items: Unable to load the picture 'C:\Documents and Settings\Greenman\Desktop\Thesis\wheelchair2.jpg'. Verify that the file exists and is of a supported format.

<text attributeA>

<text attributeAleft>

How do I ge tthe program to recognize the pictures that I am trying to use?  I can't even tell if anything else is being programmed correctly because I can't get it to run.

I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Thanks!

Miriam

The error message you're getting means that Inquisit is unable to locate the picture files referenced in <picture targetA> and <picture targetB>. If you specify a picture stimulus like that

<picture targetA>
/ items = ("wheelchair1.jpg")
[...]
</picture>

Inquisit expects the file to be in the same folder where the script is located, e.g. 'C:\Documents and Settings\Greenman\Desktop\Thesis\'. You can also tell Inquisit to look for stims in other places by additionally supplying (relative or absolute) path information in your '/ items' listing like

<picture targetA>
/ items = ("Pictures\wheelchair1.jpg")
[...]
</picture>

or

<picture targetA>
/ items = ("C:\Documents and Settings\Greenman\Desktop\Thesis\Pictures\wheelchair1.jpg")
[...]
</picture>

Also make sure you don't have any spelling errors in the filenames or in your script, because that may also prevent Inquisit from finding a file.

Hope this helps,
~Dave

I am getting the same "Unable to load the picture..." error when I try to run a script with my expt commands in it:

<picture task1rpicture>

 /items: Unable to load the picture 'C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\_MY RESEARCH\Dissertation\Inquisit\Pilot Study\SharkMULTItxt.jpg'. Verify that the file exists and is of a supported format.

Hi Liz,

Try opening up your preferred web browser and pasting the following path to the picture into the address bar.

C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\_MY RESEARCH\Dissertation\Inquisit\Pilot Study\SharkMULTItxt.jpg

Do you get a file not found error? If so, then you've either specified the wrong file name for the picture, or the picture is in a different folder than your script. If the browser displays the picture, then the picture may not be in a format recognized by Inquisit.

Let me know how it goes.

-Sean

Liz,

in case you can't locate the source of the problem despite Sean's suggestions, can you put the script along with the picture(s) in a zip-file and attach it to this thread (see the 'Options' tab when replying for file upload controls).

Thanks,

~Dave