[josm-dev] JOSM Modeless???

[Rick Collins]

At 04:38 AM 10/25/2007, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>On 10/25/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> > Only thing you can't do yet without changing into select mode is
> > *move* the node just placed; I think this is probably very common
> > (often you place a node just because you want to make the way more
> > curvy) and it would be great if we found a way to eliminate that mode
> > switch also.
>
>This would be nice feature. It could be solved by allowing to move the
>node as long as you hold down the mouse button.
>
>Too further eliminate the need for this task it would be great if you
>could see the lines between node in draw mode as long as the mouse
>button is pressed.

That may get into the same problem that we have with select, tiny, 
hard to prevent cursor movements cause the point to be moved.  But 
then maybe that is not so much of a problem when you are creating a 
new node.  It is already a bit touchy as to where the node is created.

That brings me to a point I have wanted to ask about.  Is the hot 
spot of the cursor actually on the tip of the pointer?  When I 
perform a zoom function using the scroll wheel, I always see a point 
that is to the upper left of the cursor as the center of the 
zoom.  If I put the tip of the cursor on a node, that node moves to 
the lower right as I zoom in.  Does this issue also affect the 
location where a new node is created?  Sometimes when I add a node to 
a way, the way jumps a bit as if the node was not created at the tip 
of the pointer.

Rick