I know you can put an attribute in a textdisplay simply by putting the name of the attribute between [ ] such as [Stimulus]. However, can you do the same for variables and properties of objects ? I know you can use e-basic to change the content of .text but I was wondering if you could add in a variable (like, say, "strWord") or a property (such as "Stimulus.duration" or something) in the GUI without using a script.

  Thnaks

The use of the [attrib] in the objects requires the value to be in the context.  The main way to use the [attrib] values is to place items in a List object.  The 2nd most common is via script using the c.SetAttrib command in script.  There are some built in items too like [[Running].Sample].

Because the nature of the language, it would be near impossible or highly inefficient to automatically post all script variables into the context.  In addtion, that would make for a very large data file.

-Brandon

In the same line of though, it is possible to display the [ and ] symbols in a textdisplay object ?

Stimulus.Text = "This is an [example] of assigning"

Note that the [attrib] expands to looking up attributes in E-Studio.  The only place the [attrib] is recognized at runtime is when the value is assigned to a List.

-Brandon