Data import and export

Exchanging data with spreadsheet and statistics programs...

MS Excel, as well as most other spreadsheet and statistics software, uses TAB-delimited text format when exporting data as text (.TXT) and can easily read data that has been stored in this format by other applications. In this format, table cells are delimited by TAB characters (ASCII 9) and table rows are delimited by CR or LF characters (ASCII 10, 13) or a combination of both. Wintrack uses the TAB-delimited text format to exchange tabular data with other applications, either via the clipboard or as files:

• Exchange case data as text
• Exchange scrollsheet data as text

Importing case data from tracking software...

Wintrack is designed for off-line path data analysis and relies on importing raw case data from third party tracking software. To this end, the Open Case Document command automatically recognizes and converts data files from a number of tracking systems:

• Watermaze™ for Windows by Richard G. M. Morris, Ian Brockbank and Roger Spooner
• HVS Water by HVS Image™
• ASBA Wild & Leitz™ BEO tracking software (Wintrack can also write data in this format)
• Imétronic™ Freezing for Windows, fear conditioning system
• EYE files, tracking system by Piotr Popik, Krakow
• TSE Systems GmbH (D-61350 Bad Homburg, Germany) VideoMot2 offers an option allowing to export data directly to the proprietary Wintrack case file format

In addition, a set of specialized Wintrack commands can be used to convert foreign data
to Wintrack case documents:

• Acquire EthoVision Experiment imports whole experiments recorded by Noldus™ EthoVision
• Import GPS-MS1 converts logged GPS data to case documents
• Import Route Reocorder imports data downloaded from compass based fligth recorders. Also note that for the tracking package there is

Additional information...

• For an overview of Wintrack documents and files see Wintrack documents and files.
• For more information on case documents read Inside case documents.
• For more information on scrollsheets read Inside scrollsheets.