Alive sync with Superlab or E-Prime?

[dimleyk]

Hello Ryan!
Do you know if this issue is possible?

[Ryan Deluz]

What sort of synchronization would you like. We would be happy to add synchronization with E-Prime to Alive if your research budget can allocate funds to contribute to the development costs of this feature. Please let me know what type of interaction you would like, and how this works with E-Prime.

[dimleyk]

Hello
I'm talking about the ability of alive to "write" markers in the graph training screen (for instance), depending on their occurance in third party application. For instance, i'm participating in an emotion processing experiment, where i'm being exposed to emotional stimuli. Each time an emotional stimuli is being presented, a mark appears on the alive graph - later in excel i easly can see this mark.
Do alive has API that programers might work with?

[Ryan Deluz]

Hi,

Do you need Alive to add a marker with specific text, or would a blank, or identically named, marker be sufficient?

Best,

ryan

[dimleyk]

Hey Ryan,
We need alive to add marker for stimuli onset, and another marker for stimuli offset. the text might be just "stimuli1 onset" "stimuli1 offset"...."stimui2 onset" and so on.
If it is possible that alive also will add the text input which is assigned to specific stimuli/event in e-prime that would be prefferable.
Do you think it is possible?
Thank you

[Ryan Deluz]

Hi,

We are in the process of releasing an update and have put in this new feature.

There will be a way to send any marker text to Alive, and have Alive add a marker with that text. There will be an example project that sends a marker to Alive written in visual studio 2005 c++ using standard windows api functions.

This should be available within a week or two.

Best,

Ryan

[dimleyk]

That will be great Ryan!
Thanks

[Ryan Deluz]

Hi,

We have added a feature to Alive to allow an external program to send markers to Alive.

This should work in any Alive section (graph training, environments, Dual Drive, etc.).

A sample project about how to send a marker to Alive is available here:
http://www.somaticvision.com/downloads/ ... erDemo.zip
(EDIT - Use this updated link: https://www.somaticvision.com/downloads ... DemoV2.zip for Alive versions released after 1/1/2020)
This is a visual studio 2005 C# project, but basically it shows how to use the SendMessage WINAPI function with Alive.
This way you can send a marker with any text.

There is also an alternative, very simple, option that only works when in graph training. You can post a return key press and if Alive is the dominant window it will add a marker with whatever text is shown in the add marker text box, but the return key can be posted at a specific time from an external program.

You need to have Alive 1.8.2 or later installed to use the AliveSendMarkerDemo. If you don't have 1.8.2, please update to 1.8.1 then install this 1.8.2 update:
http://www.somaticvision.com/updates/WD ... _1.8.2.exe

Please let me know how this goes!

Best,

Ryan

[Ryan Deluz]

Hi,

The sample project has been updated to include a demo build that can also be used without programming skill. The demo build can take a switch, making this much easier if you don't want to get into c programming, as demonstrated by the SendMarkerDemoBuild in this updated .zip

http://www.somaticvision.com/downloads/ ... erDemo.zip
(EDIT - Use this updated link: https://www.somaticvision.com/downloads ... DemoV2.zip for Alive versions released after 1/1/2020)

Best,

Ryan

[dimleyk]

Hey Ryan just missed all posts since i was not here for a while,
i will let you know how it goes!

Many thanks!