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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 4180

How to prevent text to appear cropped on figures?

I am trying to use MATLAB to design a very simple Stroop task where participants have to decide the color that a word is printed in on the screen. For some reason, the words are always cropped regardless of how big or small the font is.

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I used the following code to set the figure size:

h = figure('Position', [1, 1, 1200, 800]);
set(h, 'NumberTitle', 'off', ...
       'Name', 'Stroop Test', ...
       'Color', 'black', ...
       'MenuBar','none', ...
       'ToolBar', 'none');

For displaying the actual word stimuli, I used the following code:

ht = show_text(h, lang.words(iNoise),...
                'FontSize', 60,...
                'ForegroundColor', lang.colors{iStimul});

ADDED:

function handle = show_text(parrent, string, varargin)

parpos = get(parrent, 'Position');
pos = [5 round(parpos(4)/2)-30 parpos(3)-10 60];

handle = uicontrol(parrent,...
    'Style','Text',...
    'BackgroundColor', 'black',...
    'ForegroundColor', 'white',...
    'Position', pos,...
    'FontUnits', 'pixels');

if length(varargin) > 0, set(handle, varargin{:}), end;
fontsize = get(handle, 'FontSize');

[outstring,newpos] = textwrap(handle,string);
height = length(outstring) * 1.1 * fontsize;
pos = [5 round(parpos(4)/2)-round(height/2) parpos(3)-10 height];
set(handle,'String',outstring,'Position', pos);
drawnow;

end

If someone could tell me what the problem is, that would be great.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 149

Answers (2)

Cape Code
Cape Code

Reputation: 3574

What happens if you offset the height variable in the show_text function by a larger arbitrary factor like this:

height = length(outstring) * 1.5 * font size;

Instead of 1.1? Or try 2.

Upvotes: 1

Sanjay Manohar
Sanjay Manohar

Reputation: 7026

Not a direct answer to your question, but I'd strongly recommend PsychToolbox for this... There are many problems with using the matlab figure for experiments...

The problem you describe is just one of many, and that's why PsychToolbox, cogent etc. were written -- and they do make it easier to code this kind of task.

Upvotes: 1

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