copy / paste note selection doesn't work

Hello

That has happened to me, I try to select some notes and paste them in another staff but it doesn't work. Here's what you can do.

1. Try to select and copy the whole measure and then go to the other staff and paste the measure but also delete the unwanted notes.
2. The other thing you could do is to notate those notes yourself which will take extra time.

I hope this helps
-Cyporkador

Are you selecting a contiguous range of notes (e.g.: click on first note, then [Shift]+click on last note) or are you selecting some disjoint set of notes (e.g. [Ctrl]+click on each note individually).

The first should work (please post the score you are having problems with, if it does not work for you).

The second is not supposed to work: how could the programme figure out how to re-construct music out of a bunch of isolated pitches?

" it happens only when I use ctrl+clic on notes (which is the only way to select some notes on a voice)"

Well, not really:

1) Select the contiguous range of notes you are interested in, even if this includes all the voices of a staff.

2) If not already open, open the Selection filter ("View | Selection Filter")

3) In the selection filter, uncheck the voices you are not interested in: the notes of these voice(s) become unselected

4) Copy (only the notes of the selected voices will be copied).

5) Paste where you want.

Well, honestly I don't know; I am not a 'law-man', just a programmer; I have no idea if the procedure you described at the top is "officially" declared to work or not | supported or not. Also I am not entitled to "speak in the name of MuseScore" in any way; I just contributed a number of 'thinks' to MuseScore.

More informally: when you select individual note heads via [Ctrl]+click, you are selecting just pitches, not durations or anything else; then, I believe it would be tough (and subject to many different personal interpretations) for a programme to create a complete music portion out of those pitches. So, I personally would not expect copy-n-paste to work in such a case. Such a disjoint set of note heads is useful for other purposes (editing all those note heads in some ways with single command, for instance).

The procedure I described in #6 does work now and one can reasonably expect to continue working on the future: failure to do so would be considered a regression by any programmer under any point of view. One could also says that this is not very different from "officially supported", probably...

MuseScore makes a distinction between *range* selections (ones with defined start and end point and a blue rectangle around it) versus a *list* selection (eg, the result of a series of ctrl+clicks). Copy and paste of notes works only for range selections. And indeed, the selection filter can be used to limit selection to just certain voices. This is as "official" as it gets.

Copy and paste of a list selection of notes is an interesting idea, but really prbably impossible in the general case.

What you need to do is select your measure (A box will show and will highlight everything in it) then ctrl-c and select the other measure's box that you want to copy to and do ctrl-v