factor out preSaveSetup

Author: Remi-Gau

subfun/preSaveSetup.m

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+function varargout = preSaveSetup(varargin)
+    % varargout = postInitializatinSetup(varargin)
+    
+    % generic function to prepare structures before saving
+    
+    [thisEvent, iBlock, iEvent, duration, onset, cfg, logFile] = deal(varargin{:});
+    
+    thisEvent.event = iEvent;
+    thisEvent.block = iBlock;
+    thisEvent.keyName = 'n/a';
+    thisEvent.duration = duration;
+    thisEvent.onset = onset - cfg.experimentStart;
+    
+    % % this value should be in degrees / second in the log file
+    % % highlights that the way speed is passed around could be
+    % % simplified.
+    % %
+    % thisEvent.speed
+    % %
+    
+    % Save the events txt logfile
+    % we save event by event so we clear this variable every loop
+    thisEvent.fileID = logFile.fileID;
+    thisEvent.extraColumns = logFile.extraColumns;
+    
+    varargout = thisEvent;
+    
+end

visualLocTranslational.m

@@ -93,28 +93,9 @@
             % play the dots and collect onset and duraton of the event
             [onset, duration] = doDotMo(cfg, thisEvent, thisFixation);
 
-            thisEvent.event = iEvent;
-            thisEvent.block = iBlock;
-            thisEvent.keyName = 'n/a';
-            thisEvent.duration = duration;
-            thisEvent.onset = onset - cfg.experimentStart;
-
-            % % this value should be in degrees / second in the log file
-            % % highlights that the way speed is passed around could be
-            % % simplified.
-            % %
-            % thisEvent.speed
-            % %
-
-            % Save the events txt logfile
-            % we save event by event so we clear this variable every loop
-            thisEvent.fileID = logFile.fileID;
-            thisEvent.extraColumns = logFile.extraColumns;
-
+            thisEvent = preSaveSetup(thisEvent, iBlock, iEvent, duration, onset, cfg, logFile);
             saveEventsFile('save', cfg, thisEvent);
 
-            clear thisEvent;
-
             % collect the responses and appends to the event structure for
             % saving in the tsv file
             responseEvents = getResponse('check', cfg.keyboard.responseBox, cfg, ...