Text Component¶

This component can be used to present text to the participant, either instructions or stimuli.

name : string: Everything in a PsychoPy experiment needs a unique name. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no puncuation marks or spaces).
start :: The time that the stimulus should first appear. See Defining the onset/duration of components for details.
stop :: The duration for which the stimulus is presented. See Defining the onset/duration of components for details.
colour :: See Color spaces
colour space : rgb, dkl or lms: See Color spaces
ori : degrees: The orientation of the stimulus in degrees.
pos : [X,Y]: The position of the centre of the stimulus, in the units specified by the stimulus or window
height : integer or float: The height of the characters in the given units of the stimulus/window. Note that nearly all actual letters will occupy a smaller space than this, depending on font, character, presence of accents etc. The width of the letters is determined by the aspect ratio of the font.
units : deg, cm, pix, norm, or inherit from window: See Units for the window and stimuli