You can edit the actual board position by selecting Edit->Modify to put KAbalone in Modify Mode.You can add red or yellow pieces or delete them. The status line shows the number of red and yellow pieces, the move number, the side which is to draw the next move, and whether the position is valid: An exclamation sign means no, a checked symbol yes.
 | If the position is invalid and you switch back to normal Play Mode, you can't play! Only valid positions can be used as a starting position for a game. |
Take back and Forward simply decrement and increment the move number, but don't change any pieces.
By pressing the left or right mouse button on an empty or yellow field, you enter "Red piece Adding" mode; by pressing the middle button on an empty or red field, you get in "Yellow piece Adding" mode. Finally by pressing the left or the right mouse button on a red piece, or the middle mouse button on an yellow piece, you enter "Piece Deleting" Mode. Any piece that the mouse passes over with the button pressed will be deleted.
To exit Modify Mode and re-enter Play Mode, just uncheck Modify in the Edit menu.
The current KAbalone board can be copied to the clipboard using the Copy command in the Edit menu, and then pasted back in usng Paste. This way you can copy the board positions of one KAbalone program to another by pressing Copy in one program and Paste in the other, but this is better done with Network Mode (see above). Another usage is to save positions into a text file (using Copy and your Editor of choice) and retrieve a position later by selecting it in the editor and pasting in KAbalone.