[josm-dev] Validator

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Dermot McNally wrote:

>> This information is shown in the ToolTip. You get this when waiting a
>> short time over the error message.
>
> Ah yes, so it is... It does force me to mouseover each violation,
> though. For a large or detailed area, this is going to be very
> impractical.

Suggestions welcome.

>> Actually this is already implemented. It's only moved to the ToolTip for
>> two reasons:
>>
>> a) There is so little space there in the Validator window
>
> True - but to me, the existing top-level message isn't actually
> useful, and could easily be replaced with the more specific message.
> Furthermore, if I decide (as I am likely to) that it will be generally
> acceptable for tertiary roads in my area not to have ref attributes, I
> would value the ability to collapse and ignore a whole set of
> violations. As it is, I'm going to have to search through a list of
> acceptable violations to find the ones I really care about.

You can ignore them once and for all the time :-)

Don't know how make an ignore for specific tests in the test-set. But it's 
a new feature. Give it some time to mature.

>> b) When I change the generic error message, the valdition dialog will be
>> filled with lots of different message types. This makes finding certain
>> types more difficult.
>
> Which types? As far as I can see, the only violations that will be
> separated based on my suggestions are the ones that are already unlike
> each other.

Yes. The other validation types. Think of e.g. 30 different TagChecker 
types and one unclosed way. You wont find it in this batch of TagChecker 
stuff.

Ciao
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