Delay Property Issue in TimeCounter and TTLOutput

Hi,
I am trying to add a delay period in the ttl signal as below:

ttl2 = TTLOutput(wth2);
ttl2.Port = 1;  % TTL #1 must be assigned in the I/O menu Now they are all the same port
tc2 = TimeCounter(ttl2);
tc2.Duration =  50; % I changed this from 100 to 50 to make it equal to microstim time
disp(tc2.Duration)
tc2.Delay = delay_microstim2;
sceneStim2 = create_scene(ttl2, [fixation_point sample]);

However, I keep receiving this error:

Unrecognized property 'Delay' for class 'TimeCounter'.

I am using this version: NIMH_MonkeyLogic_2.2.mlappinstall which is the latest version on the site right now.
It seems that TTLOutput has a Delay property, but there is no delay for TimeCounter.

I also tried it this way:

ttl2 = TTLOutput(wth2);
ttl2.Port = 1;  % Assign the TTL port in the I/O menu
ttl2.Delay = delay_microstim2;  % Apply delay here

But got this error instead:

Unrecognized function or variable 'ttl'.

Error in dms_runtime (line 1305)
sceneStim1=create_scene(ttl,[fixation_point,sample]);

Error in run_trial (line 129)
        runtime(MLConfig,TrialRecord,TaskObject,TrialData);

Error in monkeylogic/UIcallback (line 919)
                    result = run_trial(MLConfig,datafile);
 
Error while evaluating UIControl Callback.

Is it possible that you fix this issue or let me know if I am missing someting? I attached my dms.m file in case it migth help you.

Thank you.

Hi,
Nevermind, I figured it out. It has to be written this way:

ttl1 = TTLOutput(wth2);
ttl1.Port = 1;  % TTL #1 must be assigned in the I/O menu
ttl1.Delay = delay_microstim1;
tc1 = TimeCounter(ttl1);
tc1.Duration = 50; % I changed this from 100 to 50 to make it equal to microstim time
%tc1.Delay = delay_microstim1;
sceneStim1 = create_scene(ttl1, [fixation_point sample]);

and I forgot to put ttl1 in create_scene()

Both errors are your programming mistakes and have nothing to do with NIMH ML.

You know that your TimeCounter (tc1) is not included in the adapter chain and therefore does not do anything, don't you?

Hi Jaewon,

Yeah, it seems the code never actually used TimeCounter, but there are still issues with TTLOutput's Duration and Delay. I’ve pointed them out in another thread.

Thanks for your help!