+++ /dev/null
----
-layout: default
-title: Selection Techniques
----
-
-<p>
- Ardour follows the conventions used by most other computer software
- (including other DAWs) for <dfn>selecting objects</dfn> in the
- <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Selecting individual objects</h2>
-<p>
- Clicking on an object (sometimes on a particular part of its
- on-screen representation) will select the object, and deselect other
- similar objects.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Selecting multiple (similar) objects</h2>
-<p>
- A <kbd class="mod1 mouse">left</kbd> click on an object toggles its
- <samp>selected</samp> status, so using <kbd class="mod1 mouse">left</kbd>
- on a series of objects will select (or deselect) each one of them. You can
- construct completely arbitrary selections with this technique.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Selecting a range of objects</h2>
-<p>
- In cases where the idea of "select all objects between this one and that
- one" makes sense, you can select one object and then click
- <kbd class="mod3 mouse">left</kbd> on another to select both of them as
- well as all objects in between.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Time range selection</h2>
-<p>
- To select a time <dfn>range</dfn> in the Editor,
- click <kbd class="mouse">Left</kbd> and drag the mouse.
- A <kbd class="mod1 mouse">Left</kbd> drag then lets you create other
- ranges and a <kbd class="mod3 mouse">left</kbd> click extends a range
- to cover a wider area.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Selection Undo</h2>
-<p>
- The set of objects (including time range) that are selected at any one
- time is known as the selection.
- Each time you select or deselect an object, the new selection is stored in an
- undo/redo stack.
- This stack is cleared each time the content of the timeline changes.
- If you have built up a complex selection and then accidentally cleared it,
- choosing <kbd class="menu">Edit > Undo Selection Change</kbd> will restore your
- previous selection.
- If you then decide that you had in fact made the correct change, choosing
- <kbd class="menu">Edit > Redo Selection Change</kbd> will take you back
- to where you were before you chose <kbd class="menu">Edit > Undo Selection Change</kbd>.
-</p>