# CMU box mex file

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**Created:** [July 30, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588 "2002-07-30T00:49:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/1 "2002-07-30T00:49:09Z")

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Rachel Insler wrote:   
  

> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\> ... one of the grad students had a question about a Psychtoolbox   
> \>\> function. The same question had been posted to the forum several   
> \>\> months ago by someone else with no reply, so, knowing that I had   
> \>\> worked with you, the grad student asked me if I could forward the   
> \>\> question to you to see if you a) knew the answer or b) knew whom we   
> \>\> might be able to direct the question to.  
> \>\>  
> \>\> The relevant posting is below:  
> \>\>  
> \>\> --- In psychtoolbox@y..., "kmuess" \<muesseler@m...\> wrote:  
> \>\> Hello!  
> \>\> I failed to use a new CMUBbox with a new USB Mac (via Keyspan  
> \>\> adapter) and the Mex files by Brian J. Stankiewicz. The error  
> \>\> message is always  
> \>\>  
> \>\> ??? Error in bbox  
> \>\> On line 1 ==\> CMUBbox('Init');  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Brian has started a new position at UT Austin and promised to  
> \>\> take care of the problem in future, but I wonder if anybody else  
> \>\> already observed this error messages and found already a  
> \>\> solution for it.  
> \>\> Thanks  
> \>\> Jochen Muesseler  
> \>\> Munich  
> \>\> --- End forwarded message ---  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Itamar (the grad student) has encountered the same problem, using   
> \>\> newer computers and button boxes, although the function has worked   
> \>\> with older equipment. We were wondering if a fix had been developed   
> \>\> by someone to use a USB CMU Button Box with the Psychtoolbox?  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Barring that, we were wondering if there was a function that reads   
> \>\> directly from the serial port with very accurate timing?  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Thanks in advance for any help, advice, or steering in the right   
> \>\> direction you may be able to offer us.  
> \>\>  
> \>\>

Hi Rachel,   
  
I have not used Brian Stankiewicz's MEX file for controlling the CMU   
box. I have used the Keyspan serial adapter with a CMU box and here is   
one thing that can go wrong with that: Back in the days when Macs had   
buit-in serial ports, they had two built-in serial ports and each port   
always had the same name on all Macs. Because on any Mac a program   
could reliably find serial ports with those names, some Mac software   
which controls the CMU box assumes that two serial ports exist and that   
they have the conventional names. Even though the Keyspan adapter adds   
two serial ports, those added ports are not given the same names as   
built-in ports. Consequently, when some CMU box programs try to use a   
serial port, they can not find one; They use a name which labels a   
non-existing port rather than discovering the names of existing ports   
and choosing from among them.   
  
So here are some things to try:  
  
1- The KeySpan control panel has an option to emulate one of the two   
conventional ports. I think the old built-in port names are "printer"   
and "phone" and the Keyspan adapter will only emulate the printer   
port. So if the CMU MEX file expects to find the CMU box on the   
printer port, then you are in luck. Set a Keyspan serial port to   
emulate the printer port, make sure that you have the serial cable   
connected to that port on the Keyspan adapter, and go.   
  
2- Maybe the CMU MEX file lets you select the port name. In which case,   
just choose the name of a port on the Keyspan adapter.  
  
3- If he CMU MEX will not let you select a port name, then at least the   
documentation might tell you which serial port it does use. If so, then   
you could with certainty either verify that a fixed port name within the   
CMU MEX file is the problem or rule it out as a possible cause.  
  
4- If the MEX file insists on using the phone port, and the Keyspan   
adapter will only emulate the printer port, then what ? Someone has   
to find the port name string in the C source for the CMU box MEX file,   
change the name to something matching one of the ports on the Keyspan   
adapter, then recompile. I think I recall that Brian Stankiewicz.   
mentioned in February that the CMU MEX project was a Symantic C project,   
which makes that change a bit harder for those of us using the   
CodeWarrior compiler or any other. If you can determine that the   
problem is port naming, then I suggest contacting Brian about that.   
  
Best,  
  
Allen  
  
  
  

> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\> ... the impetus for my writing to you (though I did want to say hi :)   
> \>\> ) was that one of the grad students had a question about a   
> \>\> Psychtoolbox function. The same question had been posted to the forum   
> \>\> several months ago by someone else with no reply, so, knowing that I   
> \>\> had worked with you, the grad student asked me if I could forward the   
> \>\> question to you to see if you a) knew the answer or b) knew whom we   
> \>\> might be able to direct the question to.  
> \>\>  
> \>\> The relevant posting is below:  
> \>\>  
> \>\> --- In psychtoolbox@y..., "kmuess" \<muesseler@m...\> wrote:  
> \>\> Hello!  
> \>\> I failed to use a new CMUBbox with a new USB Mac (via Keyspan  
> \>\> adapter) and the Mex files by Brian J. Stankiewicz. The error  
> \>\> message is always  
> \>\>  
> \>\> ??? Error in bbox  
> \>\> On line 1 ==\> CMUBbox('Init');  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Brian has started a new position at UT Austin and promised to  
> \>\> take care of the problem in future, but I wonder if anybody else  
> \>\> already observed this error messages and found already a  
> \>\> solution for it.  
> \>\> Thanks  
> \>\> Jochen Muesseler  
> \>\> Munich  
> \>\> --- End forwarded message ---  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Itamar (the grad student) has encountered the same problem, using   
> \>\> newer computers and button boxes, although the function has worked   
> \>\> with older equipment. We were wondering if a fix had been developed   
> \>\> by someone to use a USB CMU Button Box with the Psychtoolbox?  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Barring that, we were wondering if there was a function that reads   
> \>\> directly from the serial port with very accurate timing?  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Thanks in advance for any help, advice, or steering in the right   
> \>\> direction you may be able to offer us.  
> \>\>  
> \>\>

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**Author:** ![Allen\_Ingling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Allen\_Ingling](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/Allen_Ingling)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/2 "2002-07-30T15:10:16Z")

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Hi Dennis,  
  
It seems to me that serial should work just fine (I don't seem to have   
PsychSerial in my psychtoolbox version). However, looking through the   
BBoxLibrary.c, it looks like there is a lot of hacking that might need to   
be done.  
  
I have not dug around in the CMU Bbox code for a long time (4 years) so I   
don't know everything that should be done. Someone who is motivated to   
get this done should be able to dig around the BBoxLibrary.c and figure   
out a handful of routines that can be incorporated with serial.mex (or   
PsychSerial.mex) to get the job done.  
  
-Brian  
  
  

> On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 12:51 AM, Denis Pelli wrote:  
>    
> \> dear brian  
> \>  
> \> thanks for the donation.  
> \>  
> \> you might be able to save everyone a lot of trouble by answering a high   
> \> level question. is there any reason to think that our general-purpose   
> \> serial mex, PsychSerial.mex, would not be a perfectly good   
> \> general-purpose solution to communicating with the CMU box?  
> \>  
> \> We just dropped CMETER.mex in favor of PsychSerial.mex. It's not trivial   
> \> to implement good serial communications (e.g. CMUBbox hard coded the port   
> \> instead of allowing the user to specify it), and it seems very   
> \> inefficient to reinvent that wheel for each serial device.  
> \>  
> \> best  
> \>  
> \> denis  
> \>  
> \>  
> \>  
> \>\> Hi All,  
> \>\>  
> \>\> I am making my CMUBbox mex file code available for anyone who might be  
> \>\> willing or able to port it over.  
> \>\>  
> \>\> The main problem is that the code currently looks for the CMUBbox for the  
> \>\> CMUbbox on the printer port. However, the Keyspan adaptor only simulates  
> \>\> the serial port. On line 79 of the code the statement is:  
> \>\>  
> \>\> bbox.port = bbox\_PRINTER\_PORT;  
> \>\>  
> \>\> I believe if you change this to:  
> \>\> bbox.port = bbox\_MODEM\_PORT  
> \>\>  
> \>\> it should work. You might have to do some digging in the CMUBBox  
> \>\> documentation to see what the appropriate constant name is for the serial  
> \>\> port. Allen, if you would like you are welcome to incorporat this into  
> \>\> the Psychtoolbox routines if you think it might help.  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Here is what I have. Please feel free to update it and complete the   
> \>\> port:  
> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\> [http://psychtoolbox.org](http://psychtoolbox.org)  
> \>\> POST a message to: [psychtoolbox@yahoogroups.com](mailto:psychtoolbox@yahoogroups.com)  
> \>\> UNSUBSCRIBE by sending a blank message to:  
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> \>\>  
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> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\> Attachment converted: Wittgenstein:main.c (TEXT/SPM ) (000AA987)  
> \>\> Attachment converted: Wittgenstein:CMUBbox.m (TEXT/ALFA) (000AA988)  
> \>\> Attachment converted: Wittgenstein:BBoxLibrary.c (TEXT/SPM ) (000AA989)  
> \>\> Attachment converted: Wittgenstein:BBoxLibrary.h (TEXT/SPM ) (000AA98A)  
> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\>  
> \>\> If you need anything else, let me know.  
> \>\>  
> \>\> -Brian  
> \>\>  
> \>\> On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 07:49 PM, Allen W. Ingling wrote:  
> \>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> Rachel Insler wrote:  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> ... one of the grad students had a question about a Psychtoolbox  
> \>\>\>\>\> function. The same question had been posted to the forum several  
> \>\>\>\>\> months ago by someone else with no reply, so, knowing that I had  
> \>\>\>\>\> worked with you, the grad student asked me if I could forward the  
> \>\>\>\>\> question to you to see if you a) knew the answer or b) knew whom we  
> \>\>\>\>\> might be able to direct the question to.  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> The relevant posting is below:  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> --- In psychtoolbox@y..., "kmuess" \<muesseler@m...\> wrote:  
> \>\>\>\>\> Hello!  
> \>\>\>\>\> I failed to use a new CMUBbox with a new USB Mac (via Keyspan  
> \>\>\>\>\> adapter) and the Mex files by Brian J. Stankiewicz. The error  
> \>\>\>\>\> message is always  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> ??? Error in bbox  
> \>\>\>\>\> On line 1 ==\> CMUBbox('Init');  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Brian has started a new position at UT Austin and promised to  
> \>\>\>\>\> take care of the problem in future, but I wonder if anybody else  
> \>\>\>\>\> already observed this error messages and found already a  
> \>\>\>\>\> solution for it.  
> \>\>\>\>\> Thanks  
> \>\>\>\>\> Jochen Muesseler  
> \>\>\>\>\> Munich  
> \>\>\>\>\> --- End forwarded message ---  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Itamar (the grad student) has encountered the same problem, using  
> \>\>\>\>\> newer computers and button boxes, although the function has worked  
> \>\>\>\>\> with older equipment. We were wondering if a fix had been developed  
> \>\>\>\>\> by someone to use a USB CMU Button Box with the Psychtoolbox?  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Barring that, we were wondering if there was a function that reads  
> \>\>\>\>\> directly from the serial port with very accurate timing?  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Thanks in advance for any help, advice, or steering in the right  
> \>\>\>\>\> direction you may be able to offer us.  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> Hi Rachel,  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> I have not used Brian Stankiewicz's MEX file for controlling the CMU  
> \>\>\> box. I have used the Keyspan serial adapter with a CMU box and here is  
> \>\>\> one thing that can go wrong with that: Back in the days when Macs had  
> \>\>\> buit-in serial ports, they had two built-in serial ports and each port  
> \>\>\> always had the same name on all Macs. Because on any Mac a program  
> \>\>\> could reliably find serial ports with those names, some Mac software  
> \>\>\> which controls the CMU box assumes that two serial ports exist and that  
> \>\>\> they have the conventional names. Even though the Keyspan adapter adds  
> \>\>\> two serial ports, those added ports are not given the same names as  
> \>\>\> built-in ports. Consequently, when some CMU box programs try to use a  
> \>\>\> serial port, they can not find one; They use a name which labels a  
> \>\>\> non-existing port rather than discovering the names of existing ports  
> \>\>\> and choosing from among them.  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> So here are some things to try:  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> 1- The KeySpan control panel has an option to emulate one of the two  
> \>\>\> conventional ports. I think the old built-in port names are "printer"  
> \>\>\> and "phone" and the Keyspan adapter will only emulate the printer  
> \>\>\> port. So if the CMU MEX file expects to find the CMU box on the  
> \>\>\> printer port, then you are in luck. Set a Keyspan serial port to  
> \>\>\> emulate the printer port, make sure that you have the serial cable  
> \>\>\> connected to that port on the Keyspan adapter, and go.  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> 2- Maybe the CMU MEX file lets you select the port name. In which case,  
> \>\>\> just choose the name of a port on the Keyspan adapter.  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> 3- If he CMU MEX will not let you select a port name, then at least the  
> \>\>\> documentation might tell you which serial port it does use. If so, then  
> \>\>\> you could with certainty either verify that a fixed port name within the  
> \>\>\> CMU MEX file is the problem or rule it out as a possible cause.  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> 4- If the MEX file insists on using the phone port, and the Keyspan  
> \>\>\> adapter will only emulate the printer port, then what ? Someone has  
> \>\>\> to find the port name string in the C source for the CMU box MEX file,  
> \>\>\> change the name to something matching one of the ports on the Keyspan  
> \>\>\> adapter, then recompile. I think I recall that Brian Stankiewicz.  
> \>\>\> mentioned in February that the CMU MEX project was a Symantic C project,  
> \>\>\> which makes that change a bit harder for those of us using the  
> \>\>\> CodeWarrior compiler or any other. If you can determine that the  
> \>\>\> problem is port naming, then I suggest contacting Brian about that.  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> Best,  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> Allen  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> ... the impetus for my writing to you (though I did want to say hi :)  
> \>\>\>\>\> ) was that one of the grad students had a question about a  
> \>\>\>\>\> Psychtoolbox function. The same question had been posted to the forum  
> \>\>\>\>\> several months ago by someone else with no reply, so, knowing that I  
> \>\>\>\>\> had worked with you, the grad student asked me if I could forward the  
> \>\>\>\>\> question to you to see if you a) knew the answer or b) knew whom we  
> \>\>\>\>\> might be able to direct the question to.  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> The relevant posting is below:  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> --- In psychtoolbox@y..., "kmuess" \<muesseler@m...\> wrote:  
> \>\>\>\>\> Hello!  
> \>\>\>\>\> I failed to use a new CMUBbox with a new USB Mac (via Keyspan  
> \>\>\>\>\> adapter) and the Mex files by Brian J. Stankiewicz. The error  
> \>\>\>\>\> message is always  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> ??? Error in bbox  
> \>\>\>\>\> On line 1 ==\> CMUBbox('Init');  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Brian has started a new position at UT Austin and promised to  
> \>\>\>\>\> take care of the problem in future, but I wonder if anybody else  
> \>\>\>\>\> already observed this error messages and found already a  
> \>\>\>\>\> solution for it.  
> \>\>\>\>\> Thanks  
> \>\>\>\>\> Jochen Muesseler  
> \>\>\>\>\> Munich  
> \>\>\>\>\> --- End forwarded message ---  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Itamar (the grad student) has encountered the same problem, using  
> \>\>\>\>\> newer computers and button boxes, although the function has worked  
> \>\>\>\>\> with older equipment. We were wondering if a fix had been developed  
> \>\>\>\>\> by someone to use a USB CMU Button Box with the Psychtoolbox?  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Barring that, we were wondering if there was a function that reads  
> \>\>\>\>\> directly from the serial port with very accurate timing?  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>\>\> Thanks in advance for any help, advice, or steering in the right  
> \>\>\>\>\> direction you may be able to offer us.  
> \>\>\>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\> [http://psychtoolbox.org](http://psychtoolbox.org)  
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> \>\>\>  
> \>\>\>  
> \>\> --  
> \>\> Brian J. Stankiewicz, Ph.D. 512/232-9373 (Off)  
> \>\> Department of Psychology 512/475-7983 (Lab)  
> \>\> Seay 5.216 Center for Perceptual Systems  
> \>\> University of Texas www.psy.utexas.edu/StankiewiczLab  
> \>\> Austin, TX 78712  
> \>  
> \>  
> --  
> Brian J. Stankiewicz, Ph.D. 512/232-9373 (Off)  
> Department of Psychology 512/475-7983 (Lab)  
> Seay 5.216 Center for Perceptual Systems  
> University of Texas www.psy.utexas.edu/StankiewiczLab  
> Austin, TX 78712

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**Author:** ![denispelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@denispelli](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/denispelli)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/3 "2002-07-31T19:45:25Z")

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> \>Hi Dennis,  
> \>  
> \>It seems to me that serial should work just fine (I don't seem to have  
> \>PsychSerial in my psychtoolbox version). However, looking through the  
> \>BBoxLibrary.c, it looks like there is a lot of hacking that might need to  
> \>be done.  
> \>  
> \>I have not dug around in the CMU Bbox code for a long time (4 years) so I  
> \>don't know everything that should be done. Someone who is motivated to  
> \>get this done should be able to dig around the BBoxLibrary.c and figure  
> \>out a handful of routines that can be incorporated with serial.mex (or  
> \>PsychSerial.mex) to get the job done.  
> \>  
> \>-Brian  
> \>

dear brian  
  
thanks  
  
denis

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**Author:** ![ingling7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@ingling7](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/ingling7)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/4 "2002-08-02T03:15:36Z")

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Brian Stankiewicz wrote:  
  

> \>Hello,  
> \>One suggestion. Because it might take a while to hack the

psychserial to  

> \>work with the CMUBbox, it might be worth while for Allen to take my

code  

> \>and see if it can easily be compiled into a .mex file. This might

serve  

> \>as a temporary fix until someone is ambitious enough to hack through

the  

> \>CMUbbox libraries.  
> \>  
> \>

Dear Brian,  
  
I agree and thanks for the source. With some modification it compiles  
into a .mex file under CodeWarrior 6 now. I don't have CMU box, so  
there is not much I can do to test it. I have attached the newly  
compiled .mex file for those who want to try it out.  
  
Rachel and Itamar: I suggest testing the new .mex file this way:  
  
1- Use the PsychToolbox's PsychSerial 'Ports' command to get a list of  
the serial ports on your computer. Look at the port.inputDriverName  
and port.outputDriverName fields of the returned ports structure. The  
CMUBox mex file will look for port drivers named ".BIn" and ".BOut". If  
those are not among the port driver names listed, then this probably  
won't work. If you tell me what port drivers are listed, I could  
recompile the CMUBox file for those port names.  
  
2- If you get past step 1, then test out the recompiled function, it's  
named CMUBox.mex.  
  
I took a guess that the driver name in the bbox function, ".Bin" was  
wrong becasue MacOS does a case senstitive match on the driver name,  
which is listed both in the Keyspan control panel and by PsychSerial  
'Ports' as ".BIn". I could be wrong about that and perhaps there is  
some other cause of failure. My Keyspan USA-28X B adapter control panel  
settings by deafault provide drivers named ".BIn" and ".BOut", so the  
existing statment  
  
bbox.port = bbox\_PRINTER\_PORT;  
  
I left in place instead of changing it to  
  
bbox.port = bbox\_MODEM\_PORT  
  
which would use the ".AIn" and "AOut" drivers.  
  
  
  
Best,  
  
Allen

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**Author:** ![denispelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@denispelli](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/denispelli)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/5 "2002-08-14T04:24:22Z")

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dear keith  
  
oh dear. thanks for the bug report. i think it's just a question of   
how to classify an an unexpected error code returned by NewGWorld. I   
think i've fixed it.  
  
could you try ScreenTest again, using the new Screen.mex, enclosed?  
  
best  
  
denis  
  

> \>Hi, I just installed 2.52 on my Mac (with OS X) and got an error in  
> \>ScreenTest, perhaps related to the new memory functions that were mentioned.  
> \>  
> \>keith  
> \>  
> \>¬ªscreentest  
> \>ScreenTest  
> \>\*\*\* Keith's Classic Mac OS Compatibility/866, Mac OS 9.2 \*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
> \>G4, 867 MHz, memory bus 133 MHz, 100.951 Mflop/s  
> \>Psychtoolbox 2.52, 12 August 2002, Matlab 5.2.1.1421  
> \>\*\*\* Screen 0 \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
> \>"" (.Display\_Video\_Apple\_BB200 version 1)  
> \>8 bit dacs. 1152x870 60 Hz. (60,65,67,70,72,75,76,80,85,100,120 Hz avail)  
> \>Prefs: SetClutDriverWaitsForBlanking 0.  
> \> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
> \>??? ScreenOpenOffscreenWindow.c: not enough Matlab (62 MB) or Temp (499  
> \>MB) memory for new 575 x 434 x 32 bit offscreen window.  
> \>(You can use BYTES to check.)  
> \>  
> \>  
> \>Error in ==\> Cajal:Applications (Mac OS 9):MATLAB  
> \>5:Toolbox:PsychToolbox:PsychBasic:SCREEN.mex  
> \>Error in ==\> Cajal:Applications (Mac OS 9):MATLAB  
> \>5:Toolbox:PsychToolbox:PsychTests:ScreenTest.m (CopyBitsDataRate)  
> \>On line 648 ==\>  
> \>oo=Screen(w,'OpenOffscreenWindow',[],[],[],storage,'noNewDevice');  
> \>  
> \>Error in ==\> Cajal:Applications (Mac OS 9):MATLAB  
> \>5:Toolbox:PsychToolbox:PsychTests:ScreenTest.m  
> \>On line 535 ==\>   
> \> vTemp.copyWindowAGP=CopyBitsDataRate(screenNumber,'AGP');  
> \>  
> \>Error in ==\> Cajal:Applications (Mac OS 9):MATLAB  
> \>5:Toolbox:PsychToolbox:PsychTests:ScreenTest.m  
> \>On line 434 ==\> ScreenTest(screenNumber);  
> \>  
> \>¬ªbytes  
> \>  
> \>ans =  
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**Author:** ![Allen\_Ingling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Allen\_Ingling](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/Allen_Ingling)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/cmu-box-mex-file/1588/6 "2002-08-14T19:29:06Z")

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> \> oh dear. thanks for the bug report. i think it's just a question of   
> \> how to classify an an unexpected error code returned by NewGWorld. I   
> \> think i've fixed it.  
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> \> could you try ScreenTest again, using the new Screen.mex, enclosed?

It works! No error this time.  
  
keith
