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plotaroute admin Monday 17 May 2021 08:05:42
Thanks for suggestions. It may be possible for us to make an Undo option available afer adding a route to the background map - we'll look into this.
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Mark Worthington Sunday 16 May 2021 12:56:19
Martyn,
Glad you didn't lose anything, and good suggestions that Plotaroute might like to consider! :)
Mark
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Martyn Sandford Sunday 16 May 2021 12:16:44
I've experimented and confirm that the warning message appears if unsaved changes are outstanding.
When I experienced the problem, I'm sure that no warning message appeared. I can only conclude that I had, in fact, saved my changes so I was taken straight to the message: "The route has been added to the background map...". Because this was completely unexpected, I panicked and used the 'Back' button to try and redeem myself but then got completely lost. Not understanding what had happened, I did not realise that I might be able to re-load my route. (I think I tried this but did not regain my lost directions. I cannot be sure, now, of the exact sequece of events.)
I can see it would be difficult to make a sysem change that could circumvent this eventuality. Perhaps more descriptive text could be added to the message? It could, at least give the title "Trace a Route". Maybe also a brief hint to re-load the route if this was an unintended action?
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Mark Worthington Sunday 16 May 2021 05:57:23
Now that I have played around a bit with this, I alsways seem to see teh warning message first .....
Can you try and reproduce the issue and list exactly the process you followed, please?
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Martyn Sandford Saturday 15 May 2021 15:07:40
Yes, I'm pretty sure you are right. I was intending to measure a section of my route and the 'trace' icon is very similar. My point is that this accidental miss-click is extraordinarily destructive, losing all of the currently entered but unsaved directions.
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Mark Worthington Saturday 15 May 2021 13:26:47
John,
It sounds like you have used the Trace tool.If you are plotting anew route, you should see this warning message
followed by this
If you are editing a saved route (save in Plotaroue) then you would just see the 2nd message. You can re-load your route but I think any changes you made would have been lost.
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Martyn Sandford Saturday 15 May 2021 12:33:11
John,
I've managed to mis-click on the toolbar and selected an option that I did not know even existed. It has tranferred my route onto the background map but, in so doing erased all my directions. It would not have been a problem if the 'undo option' was available (or a confirmation dialogue) but I'm now stuck not knowing how to get back to the route I was plotting.
Martyn
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