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Select Command

The Select button will cancel any other command in progress. Any auxiliary windows are closed and the main window is restored.

The Select command is an extension to the Describe command. When active the following additional actions apply:

Also the Select All menu item on the Edit menu selects all tracks on the layout.

Selected tracks are drawn in Red (unless changed in the Color dialog).

Connections between selected and unselected tracks will be broken when selected tracks are moved. If the drawing scale is 8:1 or smaller, these about-to-be broken connections are marked with a red X.

The Draw Moving Tracks Radio box on the Setup dialog selects how tracks are drawn during drags to move or rotate tracks. This can be time-consuming when using a large number of tracks. The options are:

During the select command you can cycle through these options with Right-shift-click.

The following commands operate on the tracks you have selected:

In addition the Cut, Copy and Paste commands on the Edit menu operate on the selected tracks.

Note: the Default Command radio button on the Preferences dialog controls whether the Describe or the Select command is used as the default command.


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