Psychtoolbox-3 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- How do I get PTB-3?
- How do I close a screen and return to the command line (Mac or Win)?
- Is PTB-3 backwards compatible with PTB-2 (Mac or Win)?
- Does the PTB-3 run on the new Intel-based Macintosh computers?
- How can I skip the checks that Screen performs when it starts up?
- How do I make the initial screen black instead of white?
- Why does it take 40 s to open my first window?
- When opening an onscreen window, Psychtoolbox shows a blue or white screen and then nothing happens?!?
- What's the difference between a texture, a window, and a screen?
- How do I duplicate an offscreen window?
- How to perform keyboard check for multiple keyboards (Mac OS/X Only)?
- Can I set TextSize (and other parameters) for all windows/screens?
- Can offscreen windows (created with 'OpenOffScreenWindow') have multiple buffers?
- Windows: Why does my virus checker complain about the PTB-3 distribution?
- What do the timestamps returned by Screen('Flip') mean?
- Is it possible to get 10-bit DAC resolution with PTB-3 under WinXP or OS/X?
- How to display images with transparent backgrounds?
- How can I try to improve timing and performance of PTB-3 code?
- When trying to play movies with Quicktime, Matlab crashes or gives Bus errors! What can i do?
- Psychtoolbox or the GetSecsTest script tell me that the clock and timers on my computer are broken! What now?!?
- Why does DownloadPsychtoolbox persistently fail with svn CHECKOUT and PROPFIND errors?
- How to send TTL triggers via parallel port (Win 2k/XP/Vista/7 only)?
- Are there known issues with Windows Vista and how to resolve them?
- How can I collect responses while repeatedly presenting/updating visual stimuli?
- How can I take a screenshot of my stimuli?
- How can I update Matlab figures during the experiment?
- Does Psychtoolbox work with 64-bit versions of Matlab or Octave?
- How do I add a FAQ & answer to this list?
