Select to end of track?

Athenian wrote on 9/4/2008, 8:51 AM
Is there a special shortcut to select to the end (or beginning) of the track?

Shift+End selects the entire project, not just the selected track so it can't be used to create a group for everything to the right of the scrubber.

In the absence of explicit control over the duration of events, I find that I frequently have to group everything and move them over to make space to drag an event's border then move everything back to fill in the gap. Is there some way to select only the events on the track?

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Tim L wrote on 9/4/2008, 9:12 AM
if you are just dealing with one track, you can right click on the first event you want to include, then chose "select events to end" (I don't recall the exact wording) from the popup menu. This is a bit cumbersome, but still not too bad.

If you are doing this for multiple tracks, enable the "Ripple" button at the top toolbar, and make sure it is set for "All tracks, markers" etc (again, not sure of the exact wording). With auto-ripple enabled, you can grab any event and move it, and everything to the right will follow along. However, if you accidentally leave the Ripple button enabled when you don't want it, you can quickly screw up you editing big time (I use ctrl-z a lot to undo...). Just enable auto-ripple when you need to make a gap or move stuff to the left to close a gap, then toggle it back off.

Tim L
Athenian wrote on 9/4/2008, 9:28 AM
"if you are just dealing with one track, you can right click on the first event you want to include, then chose "select events to end"

I'm embarrassed that I didn't see that. I use the right-click menus all the time and the option is right above the section with Groups so it should have jumped out at me. I guess I was so focused on keyboard shortcuts...

"With auto-ripple enabled, you can grab any event and move it, and everything to the right will follow along."

YES! That's exactly what I need, thank you very much.

Quick Start Guides are all very well for "getting started" but there really isn't any substitute for a real manual.

Thank you.