Author Topic: Continue drawing (add to) a saved track  (Read 4994 times)

KenF

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Continue drawing (add to) a saved track
« on: May 31, 2009, 12:08:15 PM »
I would find it very useful to be able to use the Draw Track  tool to add on to an existing track.  Something along the lines of (1) Select draw track tool (2) Right click on a track (3) Message box asks for confirmation "Add to track  _trackname_?"  Or asks to pick one of several close by tracks, just like the right click on the pan map tool 

Or is there already a way to do this?

While the suggestion above would be useful in a number of ways, I specifically could have used it today when I ran into a scenario (that I have encountered before) while drawing a track where the draw tool seems to become stuck in "drag" mode, as if the left mouse button were being held down when it is not. I am not quite sure what steps are required to reproduce this behavior. It seems to happen when a drawn track reaches close to 300 points. But I have not found the magic sequence to force it to happen.

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Re: Continue drawing (add to) a saved track
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2009, 08:16:50 PM »
Drawing into an existing file is a good idea.  I'll think on it.

Please let us know if you figure out what is causing the stuck-in-drag mode.
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Re: Continue drawing (add to) a saved track
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2009, 07:14:19 PM »
Drawing into an existing file is a good idea.  I'll think on it.

Someone else made essential the same request elsewhere. It's a feature I would still like to see, but the simple workaround is to use the draw track tool to create the desired addition as a new track and then use the merge tool to add it to the original track.