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Copy/pasting tied notes in chords using selection filter is buggy
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Description
Issue type
UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)
Description with steps to reproduce
Symptom 1 (in video, 0:00–0:07)
- Create a single note tied to the the top note of a chord in the next beat
- Select the measure. In the selection filter, select only 'Top note' (and have 'Include single notes' on)
- Copy and paste the selection into the next measure
- See the notes are not tied together
Note that this is not broken for individual notes in chords where all notes are tied (in video, 0:08–0:22).
Symptom 2 (in video, 0:23–end)
- Create a two-note chord tied to a three-note chord, where the three-note chord has an untied note at the bottom of the stack
- Select the measure. In the selection filter, select 'Top note' and 'Bottom note' (and have 'Include single notes' on)
- Copy and paste the selection into the next measure
- See that an invalid slanted tie is between the two chords
Supporting files, videos and screenshots
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/27c34e40-14c8-4287-b7bf-a8c62ed61a67
In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.6.5
Regression
No.
Operating system
macOS 15
Additional context
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Checklist
- This report follows the guidelines for reporting bugs and issues
- I have verified that this issue has not been logged before, by searching the issue tracker for similar issues
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- I have attempted to identify the root problem as concisely as possible, and have used minimal reproducible examples where possible
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in MuseScore Studio 4.6.5 using the two chord-and-selection-filter scenarios described in the report. Trace the copy/paste handling for filtered chord selections; done means single-note ties are preserved and no invalid slanted tie is created when only the top and bottom notes are copied.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100