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Note
Version numbers
In general, when a new feature is added the first or the second number is incremented (e.g. 1.00.05 -> 1.01.00). Those releases might break previous code you’ve written because new features often need slight changes to other things. Changes to the final digit (1.00.05 -> 1.00.06) implies a bug-fixing release or very minor new features that shouldn’t require code changes from the user.
The windows version is spitting an error message on opening the app about flush and emit. I don’t understand yet where this originates, but it seems benign.
Serial ports may not work under the standalone windows installation, constantly reporting that the port cannot be opened. To use serial ports install python manually and install pyserial2.4 (not 2.5!)
Released: August 2010
CHANGED: for builder experiments the trial list for a loop is now imported from the file on every run, rather than just when the file is initially chosen
CHANGED: data for TrialHandler are now stored as masked arrays where possible. This means that trials with no response can be more easily ignored by analysis
FIXED: bug opening loop properties (bug introduced by new advanced params option)
FIXED: bug in Builder code generation for keyboard (only when using forceEnd=True but store=’nothing’)
CHANGED: RunTimeInfo is now in psychopy.info not psychopy.data
CHANGED: PatchStim for image files now defaults to showing the image at native size in pixels (making SimpleImageStim is less useful?)
CHANGED: access to the parameters of TrialList in the Builder now (by default) uses a more cluttered namespace for variables. e.g. if your TrialList file has heading rgb, then your components can access that with ‘$rgb’ rather than ‘$thisTrial.rgb’. This behaviour can be turned off with the new Builder preference ‘allowClutteredNamespace’.
FIXED: if Builder needs to output info but user had closed the output window, it is now reopened
FIXED: Builder remembers its window location
CHANGED: Builder demos now need to be fetched by the user - menu item opens a browser (this is slightly more effort, but means the demos aren’t stored within the app which is good)
CHANGED: loops/routines now get inserted to Flow by clicking the mouse where you want them :-)
ADDED: you can now have multiple Builder windwos open with different experiments
ADDED: you can now copy and paste Routines form one Builder window to another (or itself) - useful for reusing ‘template’ routines
FIXED: color of window was incorrectly scaled for ‘named’ and ‘rgb256’ color spaces
ADDED: quicktime movie output for OSX 10.6 (10.5 support was already working)
ADDED: Mac app can now receive dropped files on the coder and builder panels (but won’t check if these are sensible!!)
ADDED: debugMode preference for the app (for development purposes)
ADDED: working version of RatingStim
Patch released July 2010
Patch released June 2010
Patch released May 2010
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Released Feb 2010
ADDED: full implementation of staircase to Builder loops and included a demo for it to Builder
CHANGED: builder components now have a ‘startTime’ and ‘duration’ rather than ‘times’
ADDED: QuickTime output option for movies (OSX only)
ADDED: script is saved by coder before running (can be turned off in prefs)
ADDED: coder checks (and prompts) for filesave before running script
ADDED: setHeight to TextStim objects, so that character height can be set after initialisation
ADDED: setLineRGB, setFillRGB to ShapeStim
ADDED: ability to auto-update form PsychoPy source installer (zip files)
ADDED: Monitor Center can be closed with Ctrl-W
ADDED: visual.Window now has a setRGB() method
ADDED: visual.Window now has a clearBuffer() method
ADDED: context-specific help buttons to Builder dialogs
ADDED: implemented of code to flip SimpleImageStim (added new methods flipHoriz() and flipVert())
ADDED: Butterworth filters to psychopy.filters (thanks Yaroslav Halchenko)
ADDED: options to view whitespace, EOLs and indent guides in Coder
ADDED: auto-scaling of time axis in Routines panel
IMPROVED: Splash screen comes up faster to show the app is loading
FIXED: bug in RadialStim .set functions (default operation should be “” not None)
FIXED: on mac trying to save an unchanged document no longer inserts an ‘s’
FIXED: bug with SimpleImageStim not drawing to windows except #1
FIXED: one bug preventing PsychoPy from running on vista/win7 (are there more?)
CHANGED: psychopy.filters.makeMask() now returns a mask with values -1:1, not 0:1 (as expected by stimulus masks)
RESTRUCTURED: the serial package is no longer a part of core psychopy and is no longer required (except when hardware is actually being connected). This should now be installed as a dependency by users, but is still included with the Standalone packages.
RESTRUCTURED: preparing for further devices to be added, hardware is now a folder with files for each manufacturer. Now use e.g.:
from psychopy.hardware.PR import PR650
from psychopy.hardware.cedrus import RB730
(released Nov 2009)
NB. The changes to gamma handling should need no changes to your code, but could alter the gamma correction on some machines. For setups/studies that require good gamma correction it is recommended that you recalibrate when you install this version of PsychoPy.
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(released Jun 09)
FIXED bug in text rendering (ATI/win32/pyglet combo only)
FIXED minor bug in handling of images with alpha channel
added rich text ctrl to IDE output, including links to lines of errors
IDE now only opens one copy of a given text file
improved (chances of) sync-to-vertical blank on windows without adjusting driver settings (on windows it’s still better to set driver to force sync to be safe!)
added center and radius arguments to filters.makeMask and filters.makeRadialMatrix
If you leave winType as None PsychoPy tries to use Pygame, Pyglet, GLUT in that order (when Pyglet can handle gamma funcs it will become default). Can be overridden by specifying winType.
turned off depth testing for drawing of text (will simply be overlaid in the order called)
changes to TextStim: pyglet fonts are loaded by name only, not filename. PsychoPy TextStim now has an additional argument called ‘fontFiles=[]’ to allow the adding of custom ttf fonts, but the font name should be used as the font=” ” argument.
updated some of the Reference docs
Known Problems: * The IDE isn’t collecting all errors that are returned - a problem with the process redirection mechanism? FIXED in 0.92.3
sounds now in stereo and a new function to allow you to choose the settings for the sound system.
LMS colors (cone-isolating stimuli) are now tested and accurate (when calibrated)
added minVal and maxVal arguments to data.StairHandler so that range can be bounded
@import psychopy@ no longer imports anything other than core
NEW post-install script for Win32 installs shortcuts to your >>Start>Programs menu
NEW parallel port code (temporary form) using DLportIO.dll can be found under _parallel
NEW hardware module with support for fORP response box (for MRI) using serial port
for thisTrial in allTrials:
but a consequence was that .nextTrial() will be deprecated in favour of .next(). Also, when the end of the trials is reached a StopIteration is raised. * added the ability to seed the shuffle mechanism (and trial handler) so you can repeat experiments with the same trial sequence
