#19950 closed enhancement (fixed)
Improve Replace Geometry error message
| Reported by: | nkamapper | Owned by: | GerdP |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Plugin utilsplugin2 | Version: | |
| Keywords: | replace geometry info box regression | Cc: |
Description
When two old/existing ways are selected, the Replace Geometry function will display the error message "Both ways are new and have new nodes, cannot decide which one has the correct geometry", which is sometimes confusing.
In this case the error message could be "Please select one way that exists in the database and one new way with correct geometry" or similar.
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Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 4 years ago
| Component: | Core → Plugin utilsplugin2 |
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| Keywords: | replace geometry info box added |
comment:2 by , 4 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
| Keywords: | regression added |
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follow-up: 7 comment:6 by , 4 years ago
Seems I totally forgot about this case when I worked on #10225.
@skyper: Reg. a possible dialog: A simpler solution would be to use the order of selection and show a notification that this order was used. Something like Could not decide which way to delete, used the first one in the order of selection
Edit: The big problem with this that the Selection Panel doesn't show the elements in order of selection. It sorts by the displayed data.
comment:7 by , 4 years ago
Replying to GerdP:
Seems I totally forgot about this case when I worked on #10225.
@skyper: Reg. a possible dialog: A simpler solution would be to use the order of selection and show a notification that this order was used. Something likeCould not decide which way to delete, used the first one in the order of selection
Guess, we will not find a more precise message as negative ids are never displayed.
Edit: The big problem with this that the Selection Panel doesn't show the elements in order of selection. It sorts by the displayed data.
Not the first time we find this a bit in-transparent. One solution would be a new sort option in the selection panel: "Sort by selection order".
follow-up: 9 comment:8 by , 4 years ago
as negative ids are never displayed.
There is an expert option to display them: osm-primitives.showid.new-primitives
comment:9 by , 4 years ago
Replying to GerdP:
as negative ids are never displayed.
There is an expert option to display them: osm-primitives.showid.new-primitives
Damn, I missed that. The only option not included under "Look and feel" and undocumented: Help/Dialog/SelectionList
Showing the object ids still will only make sense for a few users, who have set this hidden option to true.
Need a different way like highlighting, if we want to give more info.
Regression from [34844/osm]