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olivierfriard / BORIS

Behavioral Observation Research Interactive Software
http://www.boris.unito.it
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how to keep the same event time without having to input it every time??? #757

Open elyalobokonamonoko opened 2 months ago

elyalobokonamonoko commented 2 months ago

Hello, I code communication in primates. each time there is communication I code various behaviours for one single communication that occurred. all these behaviours need to have the same time because they relate to the same communication event. in the past i was able to click on the event and input various behaviours with the same time stamp of the event. nowadays this is not possible by clicking on event only and a cumbersome feature of having to input it manually doesn't help as I code many different behaviours for each communication that happens. is there any way to solve this other than having to change the event time manually each time?

olivierfriard commented 1 month ago

Hi, what kind of observation are you doing? Live observations or from media files?

elyalobokonamonoko commented 1 month ago

HI i am doing observations from media files. i used the earlier version of boris first and had no issue. however, after my computer forced me to upload your latest version of boris, there is this issue that i described. i already designed my coding scheme around the earlier version of boris so this is a massive issue for me as I have already coded lots of footage. i have a number of behaviour categories that describe the same thing but are coded separately (to avoid having too many modifiers). for instance if there was a manual gesture, i would use one behaviour to code the intentionality (e.g. audience checking, response waiting) and then another to code laterality. i always had the same time stamp if I clicked on intentionality and then wanted to switch to laterality. now the time stamp is always different and this causes a massive mess.

olivierfriard commented 1 month ago

You can pause your media file before coding your events. In this manner all coded events will have the same timestamp.

It is strange that your computer forced you to install the last version of BORIS... All previous versions are available at https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/releases

What version of BORIS are you using now?

elyalobokonamonoko commented 1 month ago

Hi unfortunately I am coding lots of different behaviours for the same thing but using different behavioural categories (over 20 categories at least). i very often have to watch the same event many times to know which of the behaviours to code is relevant (e.g. is there piloerection or not) so that pausing the video does not solve the problem for me....

olivierfriard commented 1 month ago

What version of BORIS are you using now?

elyalobokonamonoko commented 1 month ago

i am using 8.27.1 2024 06 11 if i click on the event shown in the events log after pausing and restarting the video then the timestamp for this same event will change at the rate that differs every time