Copying and pasting bars with chord symbols does not overwrite existing chord symbols

Yes, I can confirm I get the same strange behaviour. Maybe it is because it is a piano score - copying and pasting works all right for me on a lead sheet.

Hi, Riaan,

In your bar "expected result", should the first chord symbol be 'Am' rather than 'A'?

I agree that, as earlier suggested below, likely the issue here is that there was nothing in the paste at beats 2 and 4 and thus at the destination the existing symbols at beats 2 and 4 are not disturbed.

Whether that is a desirable behavior is another matter altogether. I suspect that having the existing content of chord symbols in a bar into which a measure-wide paste is done all be eliminated in favor of whatever is in the paste is the best plan.

Happy New Year.

Doug

As noted in the issue that was filed, this is currently by design. Existing chords get replaced if and only if there is a new chord at that exact time position. This perfectly handles the two most common use cases - replacing a passage that has chord symbols with another passage using those same chord symbols, and replacing a passage that has chord symbols with another passage that uses no chord symbols whatsoever Both cases are extremely common in real world usage.

The downside is, the behavior can seem a bit arbitrary in the cases where the source and destination both have chord symbols but they aren't related in any particular way. That's case indeed where the results seem counterintuitive - here would want all destination chords deleted. But in real world usage, this tends to be far less common than the cases for which the current behavior works well. Another case the current approach doesn't handle as well as it might is combing a standard and alternate set of changes, but in that case, the desired behavior is to delete nothing.

So the current behavior - delete only the destination chords at the same relative time position as the source - was found to be the best compromise. But no doubt, other solutions might be possible, including ones that might involve giving the user control via the Selection Filter or other tools.

I understand and support the current implementation with copy and paste.
However I somehow would have the expectation that "swap with clipboard" would not be affected by this and indeed act as if the old measure was "cut" away to the clipboard, thus also removing its old chord symbols.