Brain Imaging & Analysis Center

ShowPlay is a CIGAL command defined by the CIGAL program “showplay.imp”. There is also a ShowPlay pull-down menu defined by the CIGAL menu file “showplay.mnu”; this simply provides a mouse-based way of executing the “showplay.imp” program.

The syntax for the ShowPlay command is:

showplay flag [paramfile]
   or
showplay paramfile

FLAG: 0 - initialize variables
      1 - run paradigm (default)
      2 - double speed of paradigm
      4 - save parameters in a file
      5 - add parameters to pdigm output file
      6 - load a ShowPlay parameter file
      7 - load a ShowTime file

If no arguments are specified, the default FLAG is 6 (LOAD) if no parameter file has been loaded, or 1 (RUN) if a paradigm has already been loaded. If PARAMFILE is specified and the FLAG value is less than 6 it will automatically be set to 6 (LOAD).

PARAMFILE can be used to specify the paradigm parameter file (or ShowTime stimulus file if FLAG is 7). If PARAMFILE is the first argument (i.e., the first argument is not a number) the FLAG will default to 6. If no PARAMFILE is specified and a file name is needed, ShowPlay will prompt with an interactive browser window for you to specify the input file.

See Also:
CIGAL Home, CIGAL Manual, ShowPlay Home, ShowPlay Manual, Running List, Manual Help