MarkWrite input data requirements

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Mark Torrance edited this page Apr 11, 2016 · 1 revision

MarkWrite will accept various different file formats. File format is detected on the basis of file extension.

Files can be of the following kinds:

MarkWrite project files, with the extension .mwp. These are binary Python pickles created when you save segmented data within MarkWrite.
GetWrite files, generated by experiments using the PsychoPy / ioHub WinTab object. These are HDF5 format files and must have the extension .hdf5.
Generic "txyp" (time, x, y, pressure) files. These are tab-delimited text files with columns for time, x, y, and pressure. These must have the extension .txyp to be recognised by MarkWrite and top row of the file (the column labels) must be exactly T X Y P. See the Test Data folder for examples.
XML files generated by HandSpy. These must have the extension .xml.
Eye and Pen generated output files. These must be tab delimited, give just time, x, y and pressure and the top row of the file (the column labels) must be exactly T X Y P. These must have the extension .eptxyp.