[josm-dev] Select and Move, again

[David Earl]

I realised a flaw in the 'move after x milliseconds' yesterday: if you 
select several items intending to move them, and then try to move, it 
will deselect all but the one you are in contact with when starting the 
move. You can move them all if you do SHIFT+MOUSE-DOWN but a shift-drag 
isn't ideal and you have to remember to do it, otherwise you have to 
start selecting the group all over again; it's very counter-intuitive.

I guess it would be possible at the point you decide it is a move to 
apply it to the already selected items as well as the new one which may 
or may not be already selected, and only to apply a select to the 
individual item on mouse up in an unchanged location.

However, I think this is a strong reason to reconsider the 
move-only-when-selected model.

I noticed this particularly when implementing Paste yesterday: I leave 
the pasted objects selected because the next thing you nearly always 
will want to do is move them; but you have to remember to shift+button 
to move the pasted group of objects.

David