Open Case Document command

How to open or import a case document...

1. Select Open Case Document from the File Menu.
2. A dialog box appears. Press the Help button if you need instructions on how to fill in the dialog box fields. Fill in the fields that are not grayed or accept defaults and press Ok to continue. Or press Cancel to abort.
3. If the file you want to open has a foreign format, this will be recognized automatically and the dialog will open a second time with those fields active that allow you to specify additional information which is not provided by the foreign file format.
4. If the file you want to open has a foreign format that does not contain case property information, a second dialog box allows to specify the case properties. Press the Help button if you need instructions on how to fill in the dialog box fields. Fill in the fields that are not grayed or accept defaults and press Ok to continue. Or press Cancel to abort.
5. Wintrack will open the document and display it on screen as the active document.
6. You use this command to open Wintrack case documents and to import files that were created by other programs, for example MS Excel™ text files, HVS Image WATER 2020™ files, Watermaze™ for Windows files, EYE files, or ASBA Wild & Leitz™ BEO files.

Related commands...

The Acquire Trial command lets you acquire new path and event data for case documents. To save case documents to disk you use the Save Case Document or Save Case Document As commands. New cases are created using the New Case Document command. The Print Case Document command lets you print case documents on the current printer or copy them to the clipboard as graphics. The Acquire EthoVision experiment command lets you convert Noldus™ EthoVision experiments into sets of Wintrack case documents. Using the Transform Path command you can apply various geometric transformation to the path data of case documents.

Additional information...

• See Open Case Document dialog and Case Properties dialog for detailed information on the two associated dialog boxes.
• The equivalent macro statements are explained in Open Case Document statement and Case Properties statement.
• There is a toolbar shortcut to open a new case document.
• Inside case documents provides advanced information on case documents.
• See Creating and using macros to learn how to use and create macros.
• Keyboard Shortcuts gives an overview on keyboard shortcuts.
• Using the Wintrack toolbar gives an overview of toolbar shortcuts.