Help using zoom command

[Paul Hartmann]

On 14.04.2017 12:09, Ian Feeney wrote:
> If I open JOSM and leave it on the initial start up/welcome screen, then call the zoom remote control command as follows:
>
> http://127.0.0.1:8111/zoom?left=28.9599609323125&bottom=40.996484008291105&right=29.003906244804604&top=41.04621680842959&changeset_comment=#HOT-Project-111&changeset_source=Bing
>
> I get a 200 OK response, but JOSM stays on the welcome screen, it doesn’t go in to the main editing screen.
>
> If JOSM is already on the editing screen, and I call the command above it does zoom to the correct area.
>
> Is there a way to get JSOM to move on from the welcome screen when using the zoom command?

To leave the welcome screen and open the main map view, you normally 
need at least one layer. The question is, what layer do you expect JOSM 
to open in this case?

You _can_ ask JOSM to download the area with "load_and_zoom", this will 
definitely open the map view.

Paul