Inquisit 3 Release Notes

Inquisit 3.0.2.0 (April 22, 2008)

• Inquisit 3 Web Edition can now be launched as a Java Web Start application on computers with version 1.2 or later of the Java runtime. Java Web Start applications can be launched from either Internet Explorer or Firefox, and they do not require administrative privileges to run. This expands the reach of Inquisit web experiments to a much broader set of desktop configurations, and it makes it easier to launch experiments in Firefox. Note that we've simply provided a thin java wrapper around the same Inquisit engine used by the desktop version, so timing remains just as accurate and precise as ever.
• If Inquisit is unable to save the data to the location specified by the script, it will now pop up a Save dialog allowing the user to save the file to the location of their choice. This ensures that you don't lose the data if, for example, the network goes down or the data file is locked by another application.
• We've added new options for pairing selection of two different stimulus items. These options make it much easier to select the item of one stimulus based on the current selection of another.
• We've added 15 new functions that can be used to dynamically process strings of text. These functions allow you to convert text to upper or lower case, concatenate strings together, find and replace text within a string, trim characters from the beginning or end, format strings representing decimal numbers, and more.
• Lots and lots of bug fixes.

Inquisit 3.0.1.1 (February 22, 2008)

• When you use the batch element with Inquisit 3 Web Edition, data from each script is now saved using the original script file name.
• When you open a script in the editor, Inquisit now locks the file so that other programs can read and run the file, but they can not modify it. This helps avoid multiple people making conflicting changes to a script at the same time.
• Enhanced the validresponse command for survey items so that the 'anyresponse' and 'noresponse' options are now valid.
• The autocomplete dropdown now appears above the cursor rather when the cursor is located at the bottom of the screen, and you can now select an option using the mouse.
• The location of the data file(s) is now reported in the output window when you run a script.
• Added various commands to the intellisense dropdowns that were previously missing.
• Improved performance of the voicerecord inputdevice option, and fixed a bug in which speech engine analysis of recorded wave files crashed if the original script file contained a "_".
• Tab navigation through survey pages now works.
• Fixed bug where copy/paste in the editor didn't work after you double click an element in the output view.
• Added page margins to page layout for printing.
• Corrected miscellaneous errors and omissions in help topics.
• Fixed a branching bug in which sometimes branches are run even if the condition isn't true.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash in some cases when stimuli were presented offscreen.
• Fixed a bug in computing the size of stimuli in centimeters, millimeters, or inches.
• Changed likert element so that none of the options on the scale are highlighted by default.
• Enhanced the expression parser so it more flexibly converts between different data types.

Inquisit 3.0.1.0 (January 18, 2008)

• Inquisit's voice key support now includes the ability to record spoken responses as WAV files for accuracy checking. What's more, Inquisit has a new voice response analysis tool that allows you to automatically transcribe the recorded responses using the speech recognition engine! Check out this help topic for details.
• We've added a new items attribute to the counter that allows you to add any expression value to the counter's item pool, including strings, properties, and of course numbers. This great expands the counter's functionality, and provides much more flexibility in defining sets of item pools for random selection.
• When using the openended element with a time deadline, Inquisit now records any text entered by the participant up until the deadline.
• Added color, txcolor, txbgcolor, and screencolor properties that allow you to dynamically set the property value to any named color (e.g., white, blue, lavendar, etc.), as opposed to setting the red, green, and blue components separately.
• Open and Save dialogs are now resizable.
• Added new keyboard shortcuts to conform with UI conventions. Ctrl+F opens the Find dialog, and Ctrl+H opens the Find and Replace dialog.
• Added support for inserting property values and expressions into survey captions.
• The relative size of the script editor and output panes now remain the same when you resize the main window.
• Updated the icons in the object browser and autocomplete lists.
• Fixed errors in various help topics.
• Fixed bug that caused Inquisit to crash if you launched the System Info window command on the Tools menu.
• Fixed a bug preventing the finishlabel command from working on the <survey> element.
• Fixed a bug in which the forward and next buttons would sometimes disappear on instruction pages.
• Fixed bug in which the <counter> element's /selectionrate attribute did not work properly.
• Fixed bugs in which the likert and openended buttons became unresponsive to keyboard input when you alt+tab to another application and back.
• Fixed numerous expression parsing bugs.

Inquisit 3.0.0.0 (November 25, 2007)

• Version 3 released to the wild.