On 19/08/2008 09:54, Petr Dlouhý wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:45:34 +0200, David Earl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 19/08/2008 09:18, Petr Dlouhý wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I made improvement to paste (and by consequence also to duplicate) >>> function in JOSM. Now, it is pasting the object on the position of mouse >>> cursor instead of placing it into middle of screen. I was wery tiring >>> for >>> me, when I was maping big garden colony (huge amount of same houses) to >>> drag every house from middle of the screen to the right place. With the >>> patch is the work much faster. >>> I didn't code much in java, so I don't know if I couldn't get the mouse >>> position easier, so if somebode could take a look, I would be glad. >>> I am not sure, how to post my patch into the JOSM, so I am sending it >>> here. >> I think you forgot the attachment! > > No, I didn't, but maybe it didn't go through the mailing list. I uploaded > it to server, you can download it from > <http://stary.czp.cuni.cz/petr/josm.patch>. > >> What does it do if you use PASTE on the menu or the PASTE button (where >> the mouse is on the menu or button)? >> >> is it now a two stage thing - paste, click - or does it use wherever the >> cursor happens to be on the screen? > > Second. It pastes it on the position, where the pointer is.
And if you use a menu or button? >> Is there an option to choose the behaviour you prefer? > > In fact, I couldn't imagine somebody, who would like to paste the object > into the middle of the screen, and then drag it to the right position, if > he could place it to right position directly. But I can make it like an > option, if somebody wants to. You may be right. The reason I thought centre might be preferable sometimes is that the position is predictable so you know where to look. It may be I am worrying unnecessarily - I'll try it first. (I write as the person who first implemented Copy, Paste, Duplicate and Paste Tags). David _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
