Regression: remotecontrol: option for "new layer" missing

[skyper]

Some time ago, it was possible to download in a new layer with remotecontrol. This option is missing.

r3867

[skyper]

Please guys, this was a nice feature which was lost.

r4177

[simon04]

To ease the searching for the changeset, a few questions:

• How was the command invoked (e.g., /add_node?lon=...)?
• Which was (one of) the latest JOSM version in which this was working?
• Which was (one of) the first JOSM versions having this bug?
• Could it be that the bug was introduced while merging the remotecontrol to the core?

Thanks in advance!

[skyper]

Replying to simon04:

To ease the searching for the changeset, a few questions:

• How was the command invoked (e.g., /add_node?lon=...)?

There was an extra option in the preferences

Did not use remote control the last months but I remember also a dialog (probably though it was only the safty dialog to manually allow remote control to perform its action)

• Could it be that the bug was introduced while merging the remotecontrol to the core?

Quite some time has passed but as far as I know this hits the point.

Sorry, do not have much time right now, but maybe next week.

[simon04]

In [4791/josm]:

fix #5920 - remotecontrol: option for "new layer" added (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:8111/load_and_zoom?left=...&top=...&right=...&bottom=...&new_layer={true,false})

[skyper]

Replying to simon04:

In [4791/josm]:

fix #5920 - remotecontrol: option for "new layer" added (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:8111/load_and_zoom?left=...&top=...&right=...&bottom=...&new_layer={true,false})

Thanks a lot !

Should we open a new ticket for the missing progress bar ?

[simon04]

Replying to skyper:

Should we open a new ticket for the missing progress bar ?

What do you mean exactly? When I load a bbox using the remotecontrol, a progress bar is shown in the same way as if a bbox was downloaded via the JOSM dialog.

[skyper]

Replying to simon04:

Replying to skyper:

Should we open a new ticket for the missing progress bar ?

What do you mean exactly? When I load a bbox using the remotecontrol, a progress bar is shown in the same way as if a bbox was downloaded via the JOSM dialog.

Sorry, I must have misread the comment in code.

[skyper]

Replying to simon04:

In [4791/josm]:

fix #5920 - remotecontrol: option for "new layer" added (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:8111/load_and_zoom?left=...&top=...&right=...&bottom=...&new_layer={true,false})

I had a look at it and the feature is nice but I thought about an user's option to control the layer behaviour rather than another remote option.

Now I have to hope that the provided link has the proper form or adjust it if possible but as merging layers is much easier than ripping data apart I would prefere to tell remote control to always download in a new layer.

Thanks in advance.

[simon04]

In [4883/josm]:

fix #5920 - remotecontrol: add option for "new layer" to preference dialog