Knowledge Base

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 through sub-items
• Main menu: up arrow key – Open menu item / cycle through sub-items
• Main menu: right arrow key – Open sub-items / cycle through items
• Main menu: left arrow key – Close sub-items / cycle through 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

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

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

Trial List and Other Grids

• 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
• 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 of 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 minus the number of rows visible in window and highlight same location (and de-select)
• Page Down – Go to row plus the number 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

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.

Playback Control, Acquisition and Visualization

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Play forward – 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).
• Play backward – Play backward. When playing back the tracks, one step backward corresponds to the time interval for the sample rate used for tracking.
• Pause / stop – Pause or stop playback
• 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 to the left of the return key on the international keyboard.
• Play forward at speed 0.04x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 0.2x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 0.5x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 1x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 2x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 4x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 8x – Visualization only
• Play forward at speed 16x – Visualization only
• Ctrl+Shift+' – Play backward at speed 0.01x (Visualization only). Note: This is the key to the left of the return key on the international keyboard.
• Play backward at speed 0.04x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 0.2x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 0.5x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 1x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 2x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 4x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 8x – Visualization only
• Play backward at speed 16x – Visualization only
• Ctrl+F3 – New trial (Acquisition only)

Source: EthoVision XT 19 Help, Noldus Information Technology