How to insert a chord?

Check how the plugin 'random.qml' is doing this.
That note(s) you got are actually Bbb (same pitch as an A) and the accidental is a double b

Cursor.addNote indeed cannot add chords.
You're original idea is correct, but you need to also set the tonal pitch class of the new note by using the tpc1 and tpc2 properties of Note.

See Berteh's chordsToNotes plugin for an example.

I made a few tests:

1) Cursor.setDuration(x, y); seems to do nothing: a plug-in with just this command leaves the chord/rest at the cursor unchanged.

2) By setting the tpc1 and the tpc2 of each note added, it is possible to obtain a chord:

		var n1		= newElement(Element.NOTE);
		n1.pitch	= 60;		// C4 pitch
		n1.tpc1		= 14;		// C tonal pitch class (non transposed)
		n1.tpc2		= 14;		// C tonal pitch class (transposed)
		c.add(n1);
 
		var n2		= newElement(Element.NOTE);
		n2.pitch	= 64;		// E4 pitch
		n2.tpc1		= 18;
		n2.tpc2		= 18;
		c.add(n2);
 
		var n3		= newElement(Element.NOTE);
		n3.pitch	= 67;		// G4 pitch
		n3.tpc1		= 15;
		n3.tpc2		= 15;
		c.add(n3);

No duration is set, assuming the chord will keep the duration of the element it replaces (i.e. the whole measure rest).

3) HOWEVER: this creates a no-duration chord (the debugger tells its duration is "0/1", whatever this may mean, the actual ticks are 0 and its duration type is empty) and the measure the chord is in is corrupted. This is rendered as a crochet-headed, unstemmed chord:
NOT FOUND: 1

4) if c.duration = 480; is used, the debugger reports the correct chord duration (1/4) and ticks (480), but the duration type is still empty and the measure is corrupted, as it contains only one crochet but its total duration is still 4/4. The visual rendering is the same as above. There does not seem to be any way to set the duration type.

So, unless I dramatically overlooked something very obvious, I would assume either something is wrong or some necessary step is missing in the plug-in framework.

Cursor.addNote() seems to have problems as well.

I tried to find a work-around to add chords by using cursor.addNote() for the first note and adding the remaining notes to the new chord, but I couldn't retrieve a valid pointer to the Chord created by addNote():
After a call to cursor.addNote(), cursor.element == null and cursor.segment also seems outdated (while not null).

This also leads to unexpected results when calling Cursor.next() after Cursor.addNote(). I ran the following on an empty score:

      var cursor = curScore.newCursor();
      cursor.rewind(0);
      cursor.setDuration(1, 4);

      for(var i=0;i<20;i++) {
            cursor.addNote(60);
            cursor.next();
      }

This is what I got:
NOT FOUND: 01

Cursor.next() jumps to the element following the one, that was replaced by the note created by addNote().

Things are getting more and more complex: now Chord.duration property no longer accepts an int as value: it requires a FractionWrapper, but I am not sure there is a way to create one with the desired numerator and denominator.

(According to gihub, the change happened on April 7th, but I am pretty sure it was working with int at the time of the OP)

Hi,
Is there anything new on this topic? What is the correct method to insert chords?
Thanks!