[Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?

[Bryan Housel]

As far as I know, the issue is only with Chrome on Windows.. Firefox, IE, and Edge should be ok.
We’re tracking it here:  https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3805 <https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3805>

It’s very similar to another issue that I fixed in December, so I think I can probably get this fixed before the next iD release in a week or two.

The summary of this issue is - your browser generates lots of events for things like mouse button clicks and releases (mousedown and mouseup).  We use these to know whether you are clicking on things or dragging the map around.  Sometimes Chrome on Windows just loses the events - so we see a mousedown but not a mouseup, and the user is stuck mid-click while iD waits for an event that’s never going to happen.  

The fix is to just add some code to watch for this condition. If we’re waiting for a mouseup and we detect another mousedown, we know that the browser “lost” the mouseup event and we should just carry on as if the user is clicking a thing for the first time. 

Hope this is helpful.. I marked the issue as “priority” and I think I can get it fixed in the next week or so.

Thanks,
Bryan




> On Apr 20, 2017, at 11:00 AM, David Kewley <david.t.kewley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It may be a problem only on Windows -- I have no problem on my Chromebook.
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> Unfortunately a large fraction of laptops brought to a mapathon are typically Windows, I bet.
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> David
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> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Ralph Dell <RDell at catawbacountync.gov <mailto:RDell at catawbacountync.gov>> wrote:
> I am not having any problem selecting on a click in chrome.
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> I tried every type of feature and everything worked.
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> From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:28 PM
> To: Ralph Dell <RDell at CatawbaCountyNC.gov>
> Cc: Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com <mailto:techlady at techlady.com>>; Open Street Map Talk-US <Talk-US at openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-US at openstreetmap.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?
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> Ralph,
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> That is the URL I am using.  I have been testing Firefox and IE this morning and have not been having any problems. Only under Chrome am I having a problem.
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Ralph Dell <RDell at catawbacountync.gov <mailto:RDell at catawbacountync.gov>> wrote:
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> What url are you using for iD?
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit <https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit> in firefox or anywhere else gives me the issues you are having.
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> From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:11 AM
> To: Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com <mailto:techlady at techlady.com>>
> Cc: Open Street Map Talk-US <Talk-US at openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-US at openstreetmap.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [HOT] iD issues?
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> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com <mailto:techlady at techlady.com>> wrote:
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>         Some updates were made to iD some weeks ago. Apparently, somehow, it made clicking on a feature to select it more difficult. I use Firefox, and usually have to click 3 or 4 times to get an individual item selected.
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> I wonder if the folks that maintain iD could just temporarily revert to the previous version while this is worked out?  Just a thought. Regardless, I still think iD is a great piece of software and appreciate what Bryan and others do to maintain it.
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