[josm-dev] Patch for "Align nodes straight and parallel" action

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, A Morris wrote:

>> You're right, that the action probably needs more clicks. but making ways
>> straight and aligned is not such an often done task, so for me the
>> negative fact to have more different tools counts more :-)
>
> I'm not sure how having additional tools is a negative? I agree it

JOSM already is know to be complicated. Addind lots of new tools wont help 
to make that better.

> Surely separate actions would be more useful ("make parallel" and
> "make straight and parallel"); it would be really annoying to have to
> select from a dialog box every time the action was used. (I don't see
> how the third option "relative to first" would work, how would the
> algorithm know which is "first"?)

The selection is a list. So the first element is the first selected (at 
least I think so :-)

What about making a patch against utils-plugin? You can implement the 
stuff there without the higher requirements I ask for main josm.

Ciao
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