Put a fixation cross on top of a image in Expyriment?

Question

I wanted to try to put a fixation cross on top of images presented to avoid subject eye movements as much as possible.

I am using Python's Expyriment package and thought that after present with a expyriment.stimuli.Picture I could do a present with an expyriment.stimuli.FixCross object using the clearor update input arguments. But this does not seem to work.

Answer 1

This should work:

picture = expyriment.stimuli.Picture("/path/to/picture.jpg")
fixcross = expyriment.stimuli.FixCross()
picture.present(update=False)
fixcross.present(clear=False)

Alternatively, you can first plot the fixation cross on top of the picture and then present it:

picture = expyriment.stimuli.Picture("/path/to/picture.jpg")
fixcross = expyriment.stimuli.FixCross()
fixcross.plot(picture)
picture.present()