Text Component¶

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

namestring: Everything in a PsychoPy^® experiment needs a unique name. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no punctuation 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.
textstring: Text to be shown

Appearance¶

How should the stimulus look? Colour, borders, etc.

How should the stimulus be laid out? Padding, margins, size, position, etc.

flip :: Whether to mirror-reverse the text: ‘horiz’ for left-right mirroring, ‘vert’ for up-down mirroring. The flip can be set dynamically on a per-frame basis by using a variable, e.g., $mirror, as defined in a code component or conditions file and set to either ‘horiz’ or ‘vert’.
oridegrees: 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
spatial unitsdeg, cm, pix, norm, or inherit from window: See Units for the window and stimuli
wrap widthcode: How many characters in should text be wrapped at?

Formatting text

fontstring: What font should the text be set in? Must be the name of a font installed on your computer
language styleLTR, RTL, Arabic: Should text be laid out from left to right (LTR), from right to left (RTL), or laid out like Arabic script?
letter heightinteger 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.