diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0632d45344..ac73f4c9b0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-08-22	Tobias Doerffel	<tobydox/at/users/dot/sourceforge/dot/net>
 
+	* src/gui/automation_editor.cpp:
+	fixed selection of all bars via Ctrl+A (closes #2048163)
+
 	* plugins/audio_file_processor/audio_file_processor.cpp:
 	* plugins/audio_file_processor/audio_file_processor.h:
 	* include/sample_buffer.h:
diff --git a/src/gui/automation_editor.cpp b/src/gui/automation_editor.cpp
index 2a804de742..7ea1016f15 100644
--- a/src/gui/automation_editor.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/automation_editor.cpp
@@ -1843,14 +1843,11 @@ void automationEditor::selectAll( void )
 		return;
 	}
 
-	//TODO: Add constant
-	int len_ticks = 4;
-
 	timeMap & time_map = m_pattern->getTimeMap();
 
 	timeMap::iterator it = time_map.begin();
 	m_selectStartTick = 0;
-	m_selectedTick = it.key() + len_ticks;
+	m_selectedTick = m_pattern->length();
 	m_selectStartLevel = it.value();
 	m_selectedLevels = 1;