Documents

Like other Windows™ applications, Wintrack treats data as documents which it displays in document windows. When you open more than one document at a time, the document in the topmost window is called the active document. There are three types of documents in Wintrack: case documents, surface documents and scrollsheets.

	Case documents are stored as case files (extension .WTR) and displayed on screen in case document windows. They contain two types of information: case data and case properties. Case data are the paths, events and goal position of all trials run with a particular animal. Case properties define the number, arrangement and zoom state of the trial views inside the case window.
	Scrollsheets are stored in scrollsheet files (extension .WTB) and displayed on screen in scrollsheet windows. These are scrollable tables that hold any combination of numbers or text. When filtering and analyzing case documents, you use scrollsheets to display and store the results. You can also use them to define the trial acquisition sequence for an experiment or as parameter tables to feed parameters to a macro.
	Surface documents are stored as surface files (extension .WSF) and displayed on screen in surface document windows. They consist of color coded rectangular tiles and an associated color scale. They are created in order to visualize the spatial distribution of a surface variable, a type of result you can obtain when analyzing case documents. Surface documents are commonly used to visualize spatial preferences during the probe trial of a Morris watermaze experiment.