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The Virtual Switches panel

Introduction

The Virtual Switches panel shows information about all the virtual switches in your experiment. Virtual switches allow you to create your own on/off-type events based on other information ANY-maze already knows - for example, a virtual switch could be used to determine when the animal is 'moving fast': when it's moving faster than a certain speed, the 'switch' will be on; otherwise, the 'switch' will be off.

  

  

Figure 1. The Virtual Switches panel showing two virtual switches - the animal is moving faster than the speed specified for the 'Moving fast' virtual switch, so this switch is currently active.

Details

There are no buttons specific to this panel.

  

When this panel is the selected tab, the right-hand side of the tabbed section's title will contain controls relevant to the tabbed display:

Show Help - Displays help on this panel.
Promote panel - Promotes this panel to be the main panel of the Test window.
Collapse tabs - Collapses the tabbed section, to give more space to the promoted panel. The tabbed section can be reinstated by clicking on any tab.
Close panel - Closes this tab, removing it from the tabbed section. It can be re-added using the Panel settings button on the ribbon bar, or the Test window panels section of the protocol.

  

The information in this panel will generally persist at the end of the test (depending on how you've set the Test window panel settings in the protocol). For more information, see Clearing test information ready for the next test.

See also:

 •Virtual switches 
 •The Test window 
 •The Session log panel 
 •The Errors & Warnings panel 
 •The Video panel 
 •The Dashboard panel 
 •The Zones panel 
 •The Sequences panel 
 •The Activity panel 
 •The Keys panel 
 •The I/O Status panel 
 •The Charts panel 
 •Clearing test information ready for the next test 

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