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Specifying that the Ctrl key must be pressed for a key to be registered

In brief

You can use the check box on the key's settings page to specify that a key should only be registered if both the key itself AND the 'Ctrl' key are pressed down together.

Details

When you add a key to a protocol, ANY-maze will automatically register key presses during a test as relating to the relevant behaviour - this is true no matter what you happen to be doing in the system. In other words, if the key 'G' is set to register Grooming, then whenever you press G on the keyboard ANY-maze will register a grooming bout.

This sounds sensible enough, but imagine that during a test, you want to add some notes to the Animal's details report - you type in 'The animal began the test....' but when you press the 'g' in 'began' ANY-maze will register a grooming bout (and the letter 'g' won't appear).

Of course, if you're planning to score grooming using keys, you probably won't have time to type in any notes - you'll be too busy watching the animal. Nevertheless, there might be situations when this inability to use behaviour-recording keys becomes more problematic, and in this case you can simply specify that the Ctrl key must also be pressed in order for the behaviour to be registered.

In the earlier example, this would mean that typing in 'began' would work OK, because to register grooming you would have to type 'Ctrl+G'.

ANY-maze help topic T0368