[josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

[Maarten Deen]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:09PM +0100, David Earl wrote:
> On 18/08/2008 13:18, Maarten Deen wrote:
> >This also circumvents the half broken option of placing nodes with 
> >SHIFT-CLICK
> >(half broken because it always adds a segment to the node you placed
> >before you release SHIFT).
> 
> No it doesn't. That's the whole point of the SHIFT modifier. Just click 
> adds the segment.

Yes, it very well does. This discussion was done before, I wonder why
nobody cares to check.
I download the latest from the downloadsite (josm-latest.jar	18-Aug-2008 10:53 	1.7M) so it is still present.

Press 'A' or 'N' or select the 'Draw Nodes' tool. Press and hold
SHIFT and click a few nodes. These nodes are drawn without a segment.
So far so good. Now release SHIFT and move the mouse. You will see a
segment that starts from the last node you entered.
That is my gripe with the SHIFT-CLICK option. It works until you release
SHIFT, which makes it broken.
The same happens when you don't add single nodes on the map but when
you click on a segment so JOSM adds them to the segment. The last node
always results in a segment being created.

Please, try it out for yourself.

Maarten

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