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

[Maarten Deen]

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, David Earl wrote:


> You have 3 ways to replace this:
> a) Press <ESC> instead of Shift
> b) Press <U> instead of Shift
> c) Double-Click to end drawing a node.
> 
> Methods a and b are long-time and only c is new.

These are all workable, but require extra clicks or keypresses after the click 
and therefore make the process slower.

Maybe an optionkey that will draw a node without continuing to do something 
else? E.g. "N" doing what shift-click did before?

> So the question really is, why do we need 4 ways for one function? I 
> think 3 are enough. Especially as the SHIFT-Modifier has not been removed 
> only to remove it, but has got a new meaning.

It's certainly not that we need multiple ways for one function, it's more that 
the "easy way" to do something all of a sudden vanished. And as people are a 
lazy bunch, we don't want to do anything more that we used to. ;)

>> have. Also it broke my paint colors until I realised I had to remove my
>> custom mappaint XML reference from the days when I had a plugin. That
>> took ages to track down. That'll teach me to keep up with the cutting edge.
> 
> Not the cutting edge please. But following josm-tested.jar is usually a 
> good idea.

Heh, I take the latest about once a week. I've had spurious crashes that drove 
me mad. Taught me to save early=save often.
There seems to be a bad bug that's either related to having a lot of edits or a 
lot of data (maybe when the java engine is pushing its memorylimits?)
But that's a different discussion and I can't make any hard cases about it 
anyway, except that it "occasionally happens".

Maarten