[josm-dev] "Add nodes" functionality changed?

Stefan Breunig stefan at mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de
Mon Mar 9 16:39:30 GMT 2009


Did you not receive all the other mails where I explained that in
every detail and even gave an equal replacement?

Greetings
xeen

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 17:25, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> If you are zoomed in enough, you will find a little plus in the middle
>> of the line. You simply need to drag that plus to get a new node.
>
> But then you drag the segment into a direction you don't want it to go. If you
> want the segment to be where it was you will have to straighten it out again
> with "L".
> Doubleclick seems to work fine, but I already had it happen to me that I
> apparently moved the mouse slightly and I created a new node with a segment
> coming from that node and going to that node.
>
> And I just found that doubleclicking is also not really handy when adding nodes
> to the crossing of two segments. Using shift was IMHO much more convenient and
> sure is faster.
> If we are having a vote, I am a lot in favour of getting the shift modifier back.
> You don't have to remove the other options, but I see no reason why the shift
> was removed and couldn't go back in.
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
>
>
>> On 8 Mar 2009, at 13:06, Maarten Deen wrote:
>>
>>> Until recently, pressing "A" and then clicking a way while holding
>>> the shift key
>>> resulted in nodes being added to a segment.
>>> For a week now ( first noticed it in the march 01 version and I now
>>> took the
>>> latest from march 08) this does not work anymore. "A" and then
>>> clicking (either
>>> with or without holding shift) alway makes a new segment.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug or is this on purpose?
>>> If it is on purpose, what is now the new way of adding nodes to an
>>> existing
>>> segment? The only way I found was "A", click, "S", click on
>>> background, repeat.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Maarten
>>>
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