Text Component
This component can be used to present text to the participant, either instructions or as stimuli.
- name : a string
- Everything in a PsychoPy experiment needs a unique name. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no puncuation marks or spaces).
- startTime : float or integer
- The time (relative to the beginning of this Routine) that the stimulus should first appear.
- duration : float or integer
- The duration for which the stimulus is presented.
- colour : triplet of values between -1 and 1
- 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 : a single value
- 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