[josm-dev] JOSM now with built-in Mappaint support, pls test

[Ulf Lamping]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>   I have just committed and built a JOSM version with mappaint built
> in. If you download josm-latest.jar it will automatically deactivate
> mappaint if you have it in your configuration. A new option in the
> "view" menu allows toggling between the old mode (which I'd like to
> call "wireframe mode" unless someone else has a better idea) and the
> mappaint mode which is now the default.
>   
Like to see that :-)
> I would be happy to have feedback on this. I haven't used mappaint in
> a while and when I loaded all of Berlin it felt a little slow; I would
> be happy to hear from the mappaint users out there whether the new
> version is any slower than using the plugin. If so, I have to hunt for
> bugs - I haven't made big changes, just merged in the code, at least
> that's what I thought.
>   
Seems to be no real change in performance.
> Looking through the code I found lots of places where things could
> probably be speeded up but haven't acted on these ideas yet, that will
> be the next step.
>   
Nice
> Are some of you using your own, custom mappaint style files? I have
> left the code in place that would look for them under
> .josm/plugins/mappaint but this should probably be changed to
> .josm/styles/ or so?
>   
Sounds reasonable to change. However, I know there are at least some 
users with their own styles.
> And Ulf, feel free to change the menu entry/shortcut key to whatever
> suits the overall scheme which I haven't followed ;-)
>   
I have to sleep one or two nights over it ;-)
> I have also made provisions for a mappaint configuration panel in the
> preferences dialog. What do the mappaint users want to configure?
>   
There were some questions to quickly disable the display of POIs, ... 
This should not be buried in the preferences, but somewhere in the menu 
or toolbar.
> I have included all the icons and the standard "elemstyles.xml" in the
> JOSM jar file and commited them to SVN but maybe the icons directory
> should better be replaced by a link to the central OSM SVN? I don't
> know where the "icon master" sits.
>   
It really should be a link to 
svn.openstreetmap.org\applications\share\map-icons\classic.small


As I've recently done some changes to elemstyles.xml we should take care 
not to loose those changes while tweaking with the styles ...

Regards, ULFL