The Psychtoolbox user community is quite active. The forum has ca. 2,000
subscribers and around 4 messages are posted a day.
If you need an example on how to achieve specific tasks, please take a look
at our demos in the Psychtoolbox/PsychDemos folder. If you
are a new to Psychtoolbox, make sure to read the introductory PDF file in the
Psychtoolbox/PsychDocumentation folder.
Also see docs.psychtoolbox.org or type >>
help Psychtoolbox to read our online help.
Please try to find out if similar questions have been asked before.
If you still have a question, try posting it on the forum. Bug reports and
feature requests can be posted on the forum. When you post a question, try to
include all relevant information
- Output of
>> PsychtoolboxVersion
- Which platform (Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux, …)
- A minimal code snippet that exhibits the bug you found
- Warnings and Errors that were printed to the console (please read them carefully)
- Hardware setup and relevant driver versions
We appreciate it when you sign with your name and affiliation.
The document »How To Report Bugs Effectively« is a great
guide on how to report a potential bug in an effective way. Please read it!
The document »How To Ask Questions The Smart Way« also contains
lots of good tips on how to behave on community-run support channels.
If you notice a particularly helpful answer on the forum, we will all be
grateful if you would copy it to the FAQ section on our Wiki to preserve it for posterity. You may want to
edit it down to the relevant bits. With time we will incorporate and cross-reference these texts elsewhere in the
project.