Using second Eye channel for analog arm trajectories

Hi,

I am considering to switch from Cortex to MonkeyLogic (about time, right), but I have one concern, that I am not really able to resolve from the online documentation.

In the cortex version I use, I modified the build, in particular related to the EPP channels, replicating all the functions for the EOG channels, so that the 2 analog signals reflecting arm X and Y positions could be transformed into screen (DVA) coordinates, and also used to display to the animal a cursor reflecting his arm position, be used to detect visual object 'touches' etc...

In MonkeyLogic, I understand there's the option to have inputs from 2 eyes, so 4 analog input channels in total? When you set the transformations for DVA etc for one eye channel, can it be set differently for the other channel? The DVA transformations for my eye and arm signals are not the same, and I modified also the cortex configuration file, so that these could be specified differently...

In short, would I be able to replicate such a setup in MonkeyLogic, without too much scripting?

Thanks for any help

In NIMH ML, you can use as many analog input channels as you want. Eye and joystick are just special in that calibration tools and visual tracers are provided for them.

NIMH ML supports two eyes and two joysticks and all of them can work independently with their own signal calibration. You won't need to script anything in most cases. Even if you use a weird, non-linear transformation to convert arm XY to DVA, you need just a few lines of code (see the "task\runtime v1\8 customized calibration" example in the NIMH ML installation path).

I would assign your arm as a joystick, since you want to show a cursor to the subject. Eye doesn't show a tracer to the subject.

Thanks!