Todo¶

• auto check the working port
• two screen or online report : flask server html ajax
• Format text draw method
• abstract every methods in the beginning - to speed up the startup

0.9.13.9¶

• Fixed an important issue that sleeping interval in waitForResponse() is 0.1s so that the result could be strongly biased!

0.9.13.8¶

• Added method button()
• Fixed an issue in ClickRange()

0.9.13.7¶

• Now the parameter w,h,x,y in getPos() can be set as int or float indepently.
• Set the default text 'Please enter the subject ID:' for getSubjectID()

0.9.13.6¶

• Fixed an issue that clean_screen=False doesn't work in show()

0.9.13.5¶

• Fixed an issue of saveResult()
• Fixed an issue that the program won't actually stop after pressing "ESC"
• Now log() supports the multiple parameters

0.9.13.4¶

• Fixed an issue of stop_signal
• Fixed an issue of log()
• Fixed an issue of restTime()

0.9.13.3¶

• Now getInput() support the numbers on keypad.

0.9.13.2¶

• Fixed an issue of stop_signal
• Fixed the issue of parameter background_image in a lot of methods
• Added paramter background_image in method restTime()
• [beta] Added paramter background_music in method restTime()

0.9.13¶

• Added the external control of precedure via network. You can set parameter stop_signal in method show()

0.9.12¶

• Changed the default value of paramter diag and angel in start() to 15 and 1.6
• Changed the default value of paramter vsync in start() to True

0.9.11.5¶

• Added the default value to parameter text of method instruction()

0.9.11.4¶

• Fixed an issue that the graph cannot be remained on the screen sometimes

0.9.11.3¶

• Added method getTrigger()
• Modify method sendTrigger(), supported more str input and bytes input
• [beta] Added parameter trigger to the stimulus display methods
• [beta] Added method port_watcher() to shared.py

0.9.11.2¶

• Fixed an issue that fill didn't work in drawRect()
• Added return values (width, height) in drawText()
• Changed the definition of "sys.path" in all test files

0.9.11.1¶

• Fixed an issue that fill didn't show color in drawCircle()

0.9.11¶

• Changed the parameter display of drawXXX to show_now
• Fixed an issue of sending trigger to the parallel port
• Fixed an issue of anchor_x and anchor_y
• Fixed an issue that F12 can't recover the screen

0.9.10.3¶

• [Beta] vsync=False in method start
• [Beta] Added parameter timeit to all method of sound playing and figure displaying
• [Beta] Changed the executing order of flip() and sendTrigger() for the parameter trigger

0.9.10.2¶

• Added a test for measuring time delay (time_delay.py)
• The program will print the path of current Expy

0.9.10.1¶

• Added method changeOnTracks
• Renamed the method mono2stereo to toStereoArray
• Renamed the method change_volume to changeVolume
• Added parameter stereo_array_format to loadSound, loadManySound, makeBeep, and makeNoise.
• Renamed method normal_procedure to normalProcedure
• Renamed method playSound to playBusySound.
• New a method named playSound, its parameter busy determines the run of playBusySound or playFreeSound
• Added parameter vsync to method start
• [Beta] Added parameter trigger to all method of sound playing and figure displaying

0.9.9¶

• Fixed possible issues of reading setting file
• Automaticly create setting file if it doesn't exist
• Changed default value of parameter port to '' in method start
• Added plug-in method normalProcedure
• Added method getSubjectID
• Added method playAlterableSound
• Readded method makeNoise
• Separate method playSound by the parameter blocking. Now the blocking=True version is named as playSound, and the blocking=False version is named as playFreeSound

0.9.8.1¶

• Fixed an cruical issue of suspend method
• Fixed an issue of serial port

0.9.8¶

• [Important] Unified the units of time. Now we use SECONDs in all methods.
• Added parameter saveas to saveResult. Now the saveResult support Excel file.
• Now saveResult supported update the result.
• Fixed an issue of restTime

0.9.7.7¶

• Fixed an issue of reading setting file.

0.9.7.6¶

• Fixed issues of closing method on MacOSX
• Fixed an issue of suspending
• Added method makeNoise
• Exchanged the parameter locations of out_time and allowed_keys in alert, alertAndGo, alertAndQuit

0.9.7.5¶

• Added method log that can record current event and its time from onset.
• Added method whilePressing that allow something keeping while pressing.
• Added parameter action_while_pressing to waitForResponse. Now waitForResponse supported action while pressing and could record the pressed duration.
• Added parameter allowed_clicks to waitForResponse. Now waitForResponse supported mouse events.

0.9.7.4¶

• Fixed the clear
• Added position parameters for textSlide and textSlide based methods.

0.9.7.3¶

• Fixed the display issue of default font under MacOSX

0.9.7.2¶

• Removed parllel port module in Linux and MacOSX
• Time unit changed to millisecond in recordSound

0.9.7.1¶

• Fixed bugs

0.9.7¶

• [Important] Changed the backend! Rewrite all the code!
• Added the controller method shared.changeState(idx, value)
• Coordinate change: (0, 0) means lower-left at screen
• The change of position benchmark definition in drawXXX:
  • [old way] anchor="upper_left"
  • [new_way] anchor_x='left',anchor_y='top'
• Added video support
  • Method loadVideo: it supports a lot of video format if you installed AVbin (http://avbin.github.io/AVbin/Download.html)
  • Method playVideo: you can control the play stream
• environmentNoise
  • Now environmentNoise measures zero-crossing rate and amplitude of noise
  • Now environmentNoise supports pre-defining the VAD weights via the parameter "weights"
  • Now environmentNoise returns the VAD parameters
• recordSound
  • Fixed the bug of recordSound about the voice activity detection
  • Added "vad_levels" to environmentNoise and removed the "noise_level"
  • Added the parameter "blocking" to recordSound, and so you can continue the experiment procedure while recording
  • Added the parameter "path" to recordSound and removed the method recordSoundToFile
  • Added the parameter "playing_track" to recordSound, and so you can control the recording outside.
• Changed the backend of sound playing! Now Expy supports a lot of sound file format if you installed FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/download.html)
• Added the parameter "playing_track" to playSound, and so you can control the playing outside
• Now saveResult supports string and int as the value of "block_tag"
• Renamed the drawLine to drawLines
• Added the parameter "out_time" to getInput
• Silenced the effect of parameter "rotate" to all the drawXXX. I will active them in a future version.

0.9.6.1¶

• Renamed all the methods to the CamelCase

0.9.6¶

• Renamed the tip to alert
• Rewrite recordSound and recordSoundToFile
• Renamed all the parameters to the UnderlineCase

0.9.5.3¶

• Fixed an bug on parallel port

0.9.5.2¶

• drawLine allowed relative position
• Changed "allowed_keys" in tip's default value to [key.RETURN]
• Now the show won't stop if you press SPACE (it only will when RETURN)
• loadManySound allowed mono channel

0.9.5.1¶

• Changed the default value of 'size' in the drawText to 'stim_font_size'

0.9.5¶

• Supported colornames: C_black, C_white, C_red, C_lime, C_blue, C_yellow, C_aqua, C_fuchsia, C_silver, C_gray, C_maroon, C_olive, C_green, C_purple, C_teal, C_navy
• Import time package while importing expy
• Added the parameters "font", "size", "rotation" and "color" to drawText (used Freetype as the backend)
• 1.5x row spacing when multiple lines appear.

0.9.4.3¶

• Import pandas(as pd), random while importing expy
• Added the parameter "query" to readStimuli

0.9.4.1¶

• Clear screen in the end of getInput
• Changed return value of readStimuli to list

0.9.4¶

• Added the parameter "has_RT" to waitForResponse
• Removed waitForEvent
• Press F12 to suspend/resume
• Added the parameter "rotate" to drawPic
• Modified instruction
• Added the parameter "display" to all the drawXXX. The default "display" value is True, so you needn't call the show() after drawXXX() now.
• Some tiny changes.

0.9.3.2¶

• Fixed the error when running sendTrigger without available port.
• Fixed the error when setting.txt doesn't exist.
• Fixed the error of import pyglet

0.9.3.1¶

• Added the parameter "winsize" to start
• fix the remained time after run suspend

0.9.3¶

• Press F12 to suspend the program, and press anykey to continue.
• recordSound_tofile and recordSound allowed press F12 to suspend and ESC to quit.
• Added the parameter "blocking" to playSound
• Now the getPos method can use more position's benchmarks: center(default), upper_left, upper_right, lower_left, lower_right, upper_center, left_center, lower_center, right_center
• All the drawXXX methods support the "benchmark" parameter
• Custom fonts size in setting.txt
• Removed drawFixed,drawWord
• 'sendTrigger' method
• Added the parameter "feedback" to recordSound

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0.9.1¶

First released version