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

[David Earl]

On 18/08/2008 14:13, Maarten Deen wrote:
> 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.

But that's what it is supposed to do. It's not a SHIFT+CLICK if the 
shift key isn't down.

I guess what you're saying is you want the shift key to be sticky - in 
other words a new mode! That would be a weird behaviour for a modifier 
key like shift.

David