Rerquest for paste to retain certain existing text elements
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
On copying and pasting music from a not trasposing staff (from anywhere):
you have any your instrument change scratched away:
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| W_Key3.png | 24.68 KB |
| W_Key4.png | 23.4 KB |
Comments
This is currently by design - paste replaces the contents of a measure. So any existing notes get overwritten by whatever notes (if any) you are pasting in, as do any other symbols or text. The only exception is chord symbols where we have explicit code to "merge" the two. Arguably we could do the same for instrument changes, or maybe have some more general way to control this, such as via the selection filter or whatever might replace it for some future MuseScore 4 release.
It does this even is "Other text" (which is what Instrument Changes falls under) is disabled in the selectionfilter on copy.
Right, because the filter controls only what's actually in the selection, not how that selection behaves upon pasting. Having the filter actually influence the paste would be one way to design this. Given the relatively low approval marks the filter gets, though, I'm not sure this is best design.