Likert Scale and Radio Variants
Jaap MurreIllustrates how to preselect a check button on a Likert scale.
It is necessary to use startform() and endform() in the examples here because the standard scale() control will include an OK button that immediately starts waiting for a click.
jQuery (included by default) is used to change the styles and properties.
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main.setfontsize(70);
text("Standard scale"); await(2000);
scale("How well do you sleep at night?","Very badly","Very well","sleep_quality",7);
clear();
text("Your sleep quality is {sleep_quality}");
await(3000);
clear();
var c = main.addblock('center',30,100,40), // New centerblock
b = main.addblock('center','bottom',30,20); // New bottom (footer) block
// N.B. These are covering the normal centerblock and hence the Standard
// controls will not work unless you first destroy() Blocks c and b
// See https://leanpub.com/neurotask/read#leanpub-auto-removing-and-destroying-blocks
text("Scale with startform() and endform()");
await(2000);
clear();
startform();
c.scale("How well do you sleep at night?","Very badly","Very well","sleep_quality",7);
b.button("OK","inputbutton","click","inputbutton")
.await('click');
endform();
clear();
c.clear();
b.clear();
text("Your sleep quality is {sleep_quality}");
await(3000);
clear();
text("Preselect the middle instad of the first check button (is no. '4')");
await(2000);
clear();
startform();
c.scale("How well do you sleep at night?","Very badly","Very well","sleep_quality",7);
$("input[name=sleep_quality][value='4']").prop("checked",true);
b.button("OK","inputbutton","click","inputbutton")
.await('click');
endform();
clear();
c.clear();
b.clear();
text("Your sleep quality is {sleep_quality}");
await(3000);
clear();
text("Show text at different spot in radio - normal case");
await(4000);
clear();
startform();
c.radio("How many hours do you sleep per night on average?",
['less than 5','6','7','8','9','10','more than 10'],"hours_sleep");
b.button("OK","inputbutton","click","inputbutton")
.await('click');
endform();
clear();
c.clear();
b.clear();
text("You sleep {hours_sleep} hours per night");
await(3000);
clear();
text("Show text at different spot in radio - inverted case");
await(4000);
clear();
c.clear();
b.clear();
startform();
c.radio("How many hours do you sleep per night on average?",
['less than 5','6','7','8','9','10','more than 10'],"hours_sleep");
$('input').each(function(index){
$(this).css('float','right'); // Shift check to the right
$(this).next().css('float','right'); // Shift text to the right
$(this).next().css('margin-right','2em'); // Give more space...
$(this).next().next().css('clear','both'); // make <br> clear both
});
b.button("OK","inputbutton","click","inputbutton")
.await('click');
endform();
clear();
c.clear();
b.clear();
text("You sleep {hours_sleep} hours per night");
await(3000);
clear();
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