Compatibility with OpenSesame 3.0

[smathot]

I receive quite a few automated bug reports about this plug-in on OpenSesame 3.0. On the one hand this is good news, because it means people are using the plug-in. On the other, it means that it would be a good idea to update the plug-in. I suspect it's only a matter of fixing the management of experimental variables, so that they are all properties of the var object, as described here:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/plug-ins/create-plug-in

[esdalmaijer]

Is self.var the new self.experiment?

[smathot]

Not really. var is a container object for experimental variables. Before, experimental variables where properties of the experiment object, but this made the distinction between experimental variables and the inner mechanics of OpenSesame very fuzzy.

[esdalmaijer]

Thanks! I've just seen @dev-jam's new implementation, and think I get the concept. Should probably change that in some of my old plug-ins too. Did you get any automatic bug reports on the slider plug-in? (Or anything else? I doubt people are still using my other things.)

[smathot]

Yes, I actually have seen a few bug reports for the slider as well.

[dev-jam]

Solved! Plugin is now opensesame 3 compliant (all my plugins btw)

At the moment I am using:
self.var for item specific elements/variables
self.experiment for experiment wide variables/instances
self.variable_name for plugin wide variables

In the prepare phase I link the item specific variables to plugin wide variables:
self.variable_name1 = self.var.variable_name1
Could you advice me on this? Is this a good habit or can I better use the self.var through the entire class?