8. Listmaker Library

Bunao was originally developed as an easier and more powerful alternative to the Listmaker program, which is used to develop testlists for the Cogsys real time experiment system.

Listmaker reads in a description file which it interprets to create testlist files. The description file is written in its own language which provides some basic programming constructs (like loops and branching) as well as some specialized commands for manipulating arrays and blocks of items for testlists.

The set of Bunao modules which provide the specialized Listmaker functionality are grouped in the Listmaker Library. It basically includes two mechanisms: 1) randomly select elements from arrays to create new arrays and 2) insert elements from arrays into a block.

8.1 LM:Subject Loop
8.2 LM:Switch Output
8.3 LM:Write Output
8.4 LM:Randomize Sets
8.5 LM:Set Assign (Pick)
8.6 LM:Block Definition
8.7 LM:Block Item
8.8 LM:Block Array
8.9 LM:Counterbalance Assign