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

[David Earl]

On 12/03/2009 18:06, David Earl wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 17:58, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>> Press ESCAPE the whole time like you did for shift.
> 
> Using ESCAPE as a modifier is very unconventional. Pressing it and 
> releasing it first has a very different feel to using a key as a modifier.


And actually, I just tried it, and ESC doesn't work as a modifier (on 
Windows at any rate, I haven't got a Linux box with a UI to try it on):
if you don't release the ESC before you press the mouse button, you 
don't get an extension from the node you create (presumably ESC up is 
deselecting as well as ESC down, but that's a guess). So while you 
could, in principle, keep ESC pressed or use it like a modifier to add 
individual POIs, you can't use it like this to start a new way from 
another point (either in open space or from another node or way).


Another strange thing is happening, and this may be a bug. You said if I 
double click or click again on a node from which an extension is 
currently pending, it stops extending. Well, that does indeed seem to 
happen, and I can start a new way in open space. But if I try to start a 
way from an existing node after doing that, it won't do it. I have to 
click twice on the target node before it will start extending from it.

David