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The editor's toolbar screenshot
In the table below are the various buttons explained you may use for editing.
Table 3.1. AGS editor toolbar controls table.
| icon | action | description |
|---|---|---|
 | cursor | You may want to set the cursor to paste notes at the position where it is located. |
 | notes | Add notes by clicking within the piano roll and move to till them having the wished duration. |
 | delete | Delete notes by clicking on the note you don't want anymore. |
 | select | Select notes to copy or cut them. |
 | copy | Copy notes to the clipboard. |
 | cut | Cut notes to the clipboard. |
 | paste | Paste the previously copied or cutted notes at the cursor position or just insert them where they are/were located. |
 | invert | Invert entire notation in conjunction with reverse mapping or MIDI import. |
The tools menu button contains items that opens dialogs to do common editing tasks. Like move, crop or select notes.
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The positon notation cursor dialog screenshot
The position notation cursor dialog allows you to position the cursor.
Table 3.2. AGS position notation cursor dialog controls.
| control | description |
|---|---|
| position x | Set the cursor at position x. |
| position y | Set the cursor at position y. |
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The move note dialog screenshot
The move notes dialog allows you to move selected notes to a given position.
Table 3.3. AGS move note dialog controls.
| control | description |
|---|---|
| relative | Radio button to choose relative positioning. The x- and y-offset are going to be added to current selections insets. |
| absolute | Radio button to choose absolute positioning. The x- and y-offset are goint to be added to most upper-left position x = 0 and y = 0. |
| x | The x-offset to position the selected notes. |
| y | The y-offset to position the selected notes. |
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The crop note dialog screenshot
The crop notes dialog allows you to crop selected notes to a specified width or insert desired padding. Per default the values are added or subtracted of each note and doesn't require any additional space.
Table 3.4. AGS crop note dialog controls.
| control | description |
|---|---|
| absolute | Modify behavior of crop, if checked it does use crop note control as absolute value, rather than add/subtract the value of current insets. |
| in-place | Radio button to specify that all crop happens in-place i.e. no additional space is used. |
| do resize | Radio button to specify that all crop adds some extra space i.e. the padding is increased as well. |
| crop note | Set the crop note value to resize the selected notes. This may be a relative or absolute value. |
| padding | Set the padding per tic to use. |
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The select note dialog screenshot
The select note dialog allows you to select notes of given position and region.
Table 3.5. AGS select note dialog controls.
| control | description |
|---|---|
| copy selection | Check button to say if you would like to copy selection to clipboard. |
| select x0 | Set the x0 offset of region to select. |
| select y0 | Set the y0 offset of region to select. |
| select x1 | Set the x1 offset of region to select. |
| select y1 | Set the y1 offset of region to select. |