[josm-dev] Tabular edit of name tags

[Hans Schmidt]

Am 26.06.2013 20:11, schrieb Andrew Buck:
> The comment made a few messages back is the more relevant one. 
> Currently we have a plugin called the 'tag editor' which presents a 2
> column grid for filling in tags on objects.  When you select multiple
> objects which have differing values for a given key (including some
> objects with a NULL value for this key), the tag editor does like the
> builtin core editor and writes <different> in the value portion of the
> multi-valued key.  The best way forward would probably be for someone
> to add code to that plugin which allows you to split the key into
> multiple columns with a column for each object.  Then instead of just
> labelling it as <different> you would instead put the appropriate
> value in each column.
>
> As for how the user interface would work on this I would say there
> could be a button somewhere in the dialog labeled something like
> 'Expand tags' or something like that which would be disabled unless
> there was a key with multiple values, in which case it gets enabled. 
> Pressing the button would then create the additional columns and let
> you fill in the various tags as you described in your original feature
> request.

I don't know. To be honest, I find the tag editor interface so confusing
that it is unusable (for me).

I don't know how this could be improved. I did some thinking about this
issue, but I cannot think of anything else apart from a strictly tabular
way like I did in my mockup.