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Welcome to the OpenSesame documentation area! Here you can find everything you always wanted to know about your favorite free and cross-platform experiment builder. Please don’t hesitate to leave feedback and ask questions on the forum.

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The latest stable version of OpenSesame is 0.27.2 Frisky Freud (release notes), the second maintenance release in the 0.27 series. If you are upgrading from 0.26, please read the 0.27 release notes.

About Getting started Getting OpenSesame Running from source Running with Python portable Runtime for Android Running on a tablet/ mobile device Development snapshots and pre-release packages Choosing and configuring a system Usage Step-by-step tutorial Video tutorials About sequences and loops Variables and conditional ("if") statements Text formatting (HTML subset) Collecting responses Giving feedback to participants Sound playback and timing Running experiment without the GUI (opensesamerun) OpenSesame script syntax Logging and reading data files Video playback The prepare-run strategy Python inline code About Python inline code Canvas functions Keyboard functions Mouse functions Sampler functions Synth functions Inline_script functions Experiment functions Forms About forms Using the form plug-ins Creating custom forms Performance issues and troubleshooting Button functions Checkbox functions Image functions Image_button functions Label functions Rating_scale functions Text_input functions Form functions Plug-ins About plug-ins Plug-in installation List of available plug-ins Creating a plug-in Questionnaire plug-ins Back-ends About back-ends Xpyriment Psycho Legacy OpenGL Droid External devices Eyelink SR Box Serial and parallel port Triggers for EEG/ ERP SMI eye tracker Ambulatory Monitoring System (VU-AMS) Grip devices (U Plymouth) Audio input Boks Joystick Miscellaneous Timing Counterbalancing Non-western alphabets Teaching resources Release history Examples Publications Contribute Translate Develop Create a plug-in Documentation Donate Forum Cogsci.nl BRM Paper APS Workshop Boks Models and prices Drivers OpenSesame plug-in Python library Serial port communication Timing Source code and firmware