# Buttons and Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are only available when the corresponding menu or window is active.

▪Windows – General

▪Experiment Explorer

▪EthoVision XT – General

▪Select and Edit

▪Trial List and other grids

▪Row-select grids

▪Playback Control, Acquisition and Visualization

▪Arena Settings

▪Manual Scoring Settings

▪Trial Control

▪Detection Settings

▪Track Editor

▪Analysis Profiles

▪Statistics and Charts

Windows – General

Some of these shortcut keys can also be used in the Experiment Explorer, the Show/Hide menu, the Arena Settings window, the Trial Control window, and the Detection Settings window.

Esc | Cancel action
F1 | Help
F2 | Rename/ edit
F3 | Find next
Shift+F3 | Find previous
F4 | Expand pull down list
Ctrl+F4 | Close active window (does not apply to EthoVision XT)
Alt+F4 | Close application
Alt+Enter | Open properties of selected item (e.g. Settings dialog of dependent variable)
Shift+F10 or context menu key | Open context menu of selected item
Alt+Spacebar | Open shortcut menu of selected window
Ctrl+Esc | Display Start menu
Alt+underlined letter | Application: open corresponding main menu Dialog: carry out corresponding command
F10 | Activate main menu bar
Main-menu: down arrow key | Open menu-item/ cycle thru sub-items
Main-menu: up arrow key | Open menu-item/ cycle thru sub-items
Main-menu: right arrow key | Open sub-items/ Cycle thru items
Main-menu: left arrow key | Close sub-items/ Cycle thru items
Spacebar | Select/ clear checkbox if active option is a checkbox
Arrow keys | Move/ nudge cursor (highlighted item in grid) or selected item
Alt+Tab | Switch between open applications
Alt+Esc | Cycle through applications in order they were opened

Experiment Explorer

End | Display the bottom of the active window
Home | Display the top of the active window
* on numeric keypad | Display all subfolders under the selected folder
+ on numeric keypad | Display the contents of the selected folder
- on numeric keypad | Collapse the selected folder
Left arrow key | Collapse current selection if it's expanded, or select parent folder
Right arrow key | Display current selection if it's collapsed, or select first subfolder
Up arrow key | Previous item
Down arrow key | Next item

EthoVision XT – General

Shortcuts from the menu

Use the keyboard to activate all the functions in EthoVision XT that are on the menus. Press Alt plus the letter underlined in the menu and then select the desired function by scrolling down to the function or by pressing the underlined letter. For example, to go to Preferences on the File menu, press Alt+F, f.

Main shortcuts

Ctrl+N | New default experiment
Ctrl+O | Open (experiment or other file type)
Ctrl+S | Save experiment
Ctrl+Shift+S | Save experiment as…
Ctrl+T | New template experiment

Select and Edit

Ctrl+X | Cut
Ctrl+C | Copy
Ctrl+V | Paste
Ctrl+Delete or Delete | Delete
Ctrl+drag item | Copy selected item
Shift+drag item | Move selected item
Shift+arrow keys | Expand/ contract block selection in direction of arrow key

Trial List and other grids

Ctrl+left arrow key | Go to first cell of row
Ctrl+right arrow key | Go to last cell of row
Ctrl+up arrow key | Go to first cell of column
Ctrl+down arrow key | Go to last cell of column
Arrow keys | Move highlight in direction of key
F2 | Rename/ edit cell content (see Windows - general)
Tab | Go to next cell in row. If last cell, do nothing
Shift+Tab | Go to previous cell in row. If first cell, do nothing
Enter | (Accept entry and) Go to same column, next row. If last row, go to first cell last row
Home | Go to the first character within the cell (edit mode, only for user-defined variables)
End | Go to the last character within the cell (edit mode, only for user-defined variables)
Page Up | Go to row - no. of rows visible in window and highlight same location (and de-select)
Page Down | Go to row + no. of rows visible in window and highlight same location (and de-select)
Ctrl+Home | Go to first cell of first column
Ctrl+End | Go to last cell of last column
Ctrl+Alt+T | Add trials to the Trial List
Ctrl+Alt+V | Add an independent variable to the Trial List
Ctrl+Alt+L | Add videos to the Trial List
Ctrl+Alt+I | Import external data into the Trial List
Ctrl+Alt+E | Import trials into the Trial List

Row-select grids

An example of a row-select grid is the Components pane in the Data Profile screen and Analysis Profile screen. There you can select rows, not individual cells.

Up arrow key | Step one row up
Down arrow key | Step one row down
Enter | Open the settings window of the selected row in the Analysis profile

Playback Control, Acquisition and Visualization

Ctrl+up arrow key |  | Jump to begin
Ctrl+down arrow key |  | Jump to end
Ctrl+left arrow key |  | Step 1 sample (or frame) backward
Ctrl+right arrow key |  | Step 1 sample (or frame) forward
(no shortcut) |  | Loops the video (only for Integrated Visualization)
Ctrl+9 |  | Play forward at the speed selected. When playing back the tracks, one step forward corresponds to the time interval for the sample rate used for tracking. For example, 0.04 seconds if the sample rate is 25/s.
Ctrl+Shift+4 |  | Play backward. When playing back the tracks, one step backward corresponds to the time interval for the sample rate used for tracking.
Ctrl+0 |  | Pause / stop
Ctrl+. |  | Zoom x2 (Track Visualization, Heatmaps and variable plots in Integrated Visualization)
Ctrl+, |  | Zoom x1/2 (Track Visualization, Heatmaps and variable plots in Integrated Visualization)
Ctrl+/ |  | Fit all (Track Visualization only)
Ctrl+‘ |  | Play forward at speed 0.01x (Visualization only) Note: This is the key left to the key 1 on the international keyboard
Ctrl+1 |  | Play forward at speed 0.04x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+2 |  | Play forward at speed 0.2x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+3 |  | Play forward at speed 0.5x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+4 |  | Play forward at speed 1x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+5 |  | Play forward at speed 2x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+6 |  | Play forward at speed 4x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+7 |  | Play forward at speed 8x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+8 |  | Play forward at speed 16x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+’ |  | Play backward at speed 0.01x (Visualization only) Note: This is the key left to the key 1 on the international keyboard
Ctrl+Shift+1 |  | Play backward at speed 0.04x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+2 |  | Play backward at speed 0.2x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+3 |  | Play backward at speed 0.5x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+4 |  | Play backward at speed 1x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+5 |  | Play backward at speed 2x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+6 |  | Play backward at speed 4x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+7 |  | Play backward at speed 8x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+Shift+8 |  | Play backward at speed 16x (Visualization only)
Ctrl+F3 |  | New trial (Acquisition only)
Ctrl+F5 |  | Start trial (Acquisition only)
Ctrl+F6 |  | Stop trial (Acquisition only)
Ctrl + + |  | Playback speed one step up. The current speed is shown next to this button. Note: It does not work with the key + on the numerical keyboard.
Ctrl + - |  | Playback speed one step down Note: It does not work with the key - on the numerical keyboard.
(no shortcut) |  | Reset the background (grabs the current video frame and uses it as background)
(no shortcut) |  | Skip trial
(no shortcut) |  | Optimize tracking speed See DDS (Detection determines speed)
(no shortcut) |  | Starts screen recording (Integrated Visualization only)

Arena Settings

See also Windows – General and Normal Grids shortcut keys.

Del |  | Delete selected element
Ctrl+J |  | Validate the Arena Settings
V |  | Normal (arrow) mode
R |  | Rotation mode
P |  | Point edit mode
L |  | Draw lines
S |  | Draw rectangle
O |  | Draw open polyline
Y |  | Draw closed polyline
E |  | Ellipse
T |  | 3-Point circle
I |  | Subdivided circle
U |  | Subdivided rectangle
Z |  | Add zone label
A |  | Auto label zone
C |  | Add point
Up arrow key |  | Nudge selected element smallest resolution unit up
Down arrow key |  | Nudge selected element smallest resolution unit down
Left arrow key |  | Nudge selected element smallest resolution unit left
Right arrow key |  | Nudge selected element smallest resolution unit right
Shift+arrow key |  | Nudge 10x
Ctrl+. |  | Zoom in the background image and arena elements
Ctrl+, |  | Zoom out the background image and arena elements

Manual Scoring Settings

Ctrl+B | Add a behavior category
Ctrl+V | Validate the current coding scheme

Trial Control

See Windows – General and Row-select Grids shortcut keys.

Detection Settings

See Windows – General and Row-select Grids shortcut keys. The following shortcut keys for playing back the video file work in the Detection Settings window.

Ctrl+up arrow key | Jump to begin
Ctrl+down arrow key | Jump to end
Ctrl+left arrow key | Step -1 sample
Ctrl+right arrow key | Step +1 sample
Ctrl+9 | Play forward
Ctrl+0 | Pause / stop

Track Editor

Ctrl+E | Open the Auto Select window
W | Swap nose and tail in selection
Ctrl+F | Open the Fix Nose-Tail swaps window
D | Swap subjects in selection
Ctrl+Del | Set selection to missing
Ctrl+I | Interpolate selection
Ctrl+Shift+I | Interpolate only center-points
Ctrl+M | Set tail-base points to missing
Ctrl+Shift+M | Set nose points to missing

The shortcut keys for playing back the video files, listed in Playback Control, Acquisition and Visualization also work in the Track Editor screen.

Analysis Profiles

▪For the Components pane: see Row-select grids

▪For the Dependent Variables list: see Trial List and other grids

Statistics and Charts

C | Refresh the statistics results table
B | Start batch analysis
E | Export the statistics results table