Download & installation

Wintrack is not a commercial product but permanent work in progress.
It can be downloaded and used free of charge provided that:

• It is used only for noncommercial purposes
• Its use for publications is acknowledged by a citation of the following paper:
  Wolfer DP, Madani R, Valenti P, Lipp HP
  Extended analysis of path data from mutant mice using the public domain software Wintrack,
  Physiol Behav 73:745-753, 2001
• Users do not expect customer support and error free operation

The download package is a self-expanding archive that contains the program file Wtr32.exe plus any files and folders required for online help and tutorial. Wintrack is a 32-bit application which requires Windows 95/98 or later to run. It needs approximately 4.5 MB of free harddisk space for installation and 4 MB of RAM (depending on use) to run. If you have an older version of Wintrack installed on your computer, it is recommended to remove it before installing the new one.

Current release

• Wintrack 2.4.50923 - Released 23.09.2005
  Some new functionality has been added to variable definition files. Event channels in case documents can now be edited interactively. Several bugs have been removed.

Previous releases

• Wintrack 2.4.50109 - Released 09.01.2005
  Trials can now be overlaid when viewing case documents. Because of this, the case document file format (WTR) had to be changed. Files generated by this new version may be unreadable for earlier program versions. New functionality has been added to custom variable definition files and to the program interface.
• Wintrack 2.4.40808 - Released 08.08.2004
  Changes have been made to the Import GPSMS1 and Save Scrollsheet As commands and some new functionality has been added to custom variable definition files.
• Wintrack 2.4.31123 - Released 23.11.2003
  Enhancements were made to the variable definition statements Transform, Include and Exclude, as well as to the arena definition statement Field. The Filter Case Document, New Surface Document and Surface Properties commands offer new functionality.
• Wintrack 2.4.30924 - Released 24.09.2003
  The Transform Path and Z-Transform Scrollsheet commands have been added.
  The variable definition statement Collapse has a new mode Mdn.
• Wintrack 2.4.30323 - Released 23.03.2003
  Improvements have been made to the Open Scrollsheet, Acquire Noldus Experiment, and Import GPMS1 commands. The variable definition statements Compare, Matrix, Memory, Tabulate, and Transform have new and improved options. scrollsheets can now have up to 61439 lines.
• Wintrack 2.4.21214 - Released 14.12.2002
  The variable definition statements Matrix, Ex/Include, Discard, Transform have new options. Variable definition expressions may contain log, square root and arc sin transformations. Variable definition files can process include files. Scrollsheets can also be opened and saved as comma separated value format (CSV) and fixed column width text. The filter engine also reconstructs scaled xy coordinates and supplemental data.
• Wintrack 2.4.20825 - Released 25.08.2002
  Features an improved @ operator and variable definition statement Surface
• Wintrack 2.4.20630 - Released 30.06.2002
  Supports Noldus Ethovision 2.30, implements new keyboard shortcuts to control path zooming functions and filtering, allows import of GPS data from the southern hemisphere.
• Wintrack 2.4.20127 - Released 27.01.2002
  Improves data import from Noldus Ethovision 1.96 experiments with training to criterion schedules, further extends the functionality of variable definition and custom setup files.
• Wintrack 2.4.11027 - Released 27.10.2001
  Changes data file format to allow storage of GMT time and date, handles GPs data recorded outside the Swiss Grid zone, extends the functionality of variable definition files.
• Wintrack 2.4.10823 - Released 23.8.2001
  Imports Files from the HVS Image 2020 Plus Tracking system and Water 2020 software, adds new functionality to several variable definition statements, and introduces two new operators for expressions.
• Wintrack 2.4.10311 - Released 11.3.2001
  Introduces the variable definition statement Collect, adds new modes to the Surface statement, allows to define rotated rectangular fields in custom setup files, and makes a number of changes to the Acquire Noldus Experiment command.
• Wintrack 2.4.01209 - Released 9.12.2000
  Is now able to handle case data in MS-Excel compatible text format even if time stamps do not begin at 0s.
• Wintrack 2.4.00916 - Released 17.9.2000
  Minor changes were made to the Import GPSMS1 command and a bug affecting custom variable calculation under certain conditions has been removed.
• Wintrack 2.4.00910 - Released 10.9.2000
  Has HTML based help, improved import of Noldus™ EthoVision and GPSMS1 data, enhanced variable definition scripting.
• Wintrack 2.3.00108 - Released 8.1.2000
  Handles EthoVision experiments with multiple arenas, last version using the classical WinHelp based online help system.