Paul P

Soft Enerji
I'd like to print a copy so I have it handy while I'm getting used to the program.

While you're at it, disable all the shortcuts you won't be using for now.  You can always reenable them later.  In the meantime, you won't spend hours wondering what happened after you accidentally hit the "o" key.
 

That's a fair point but how do I do that?

In Preferences > Customizations > Keyboard Shortcuts assign the existing shortcut to the "Do Nothing: Use to block pre-defined accelerators" function." In order to see the Keyboard Shortcuts option make sure to select the Advanced radio button at the bottom the the Preferences dialog.

Hey scook - thanks for the idea, I'll definitely give that a shot.  A few quick questions:
 
1.  You have a whole block with offset 30, etc in the move back but just the DO section on the move forward.  Would this assume that you actually had to full sections like the first or could it be coded either way?
2.  What is the 30 representative of?  If I wanted move by quarter notes, for example, would 30 be definitive or is that in milliseconds or something "non-beat" related?

I used a variable in the first example because
1) It shows how to use a variable and
2) The value is referenced more than once
 
Now is the cursor position in ticks.

So is there a way to specify beats or would it have to be calculated from the ticks based on tempo or resolution or something? (thanks for the info, btw)

It may be possible, there is a good help file for the CAL language included with the CAL Editor and much more sophisticated examples included in Cakewalk Content.

Ok - great.  So after thinking about "ticks" I realized that it's the same as the PPQ setting.  So since there are 960 Pulses Per Quarter note, I just modified the above with 960 instead of 30 and it does exactly a quarter note.  So this works for what I needed.
 
Thanks again for the information.

 
There's a whole bunch of CAL stuff, including the editor, at its developper's (?) site Collusion Inc.