Shortcut to change waypoint coordinates
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Yesterday I've been on a tour with friends and they told me what they miss most in Locus 4 compared to Locus 3: They said its the possibility to quickly change coordinates of a waypoint by just clicking onto its coordinates-field. If clicking onto the coordinate-field of a waypoint in Locus 3, a "Coordinates" dialogue opens, where we could either change the coordinates. Or display them in various other formats, which sometimes is a very handy feature if some other app needs input of coordinates in another format than the current used within Locus.
Please make clicking onto waypoint coordinates open the same dialog like in Locus 3, thanks you!
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Hi Sonny,
is this really needed? "Coordinates" panel is usually a little lower in the point/geocache screen so you need a scroll this screen up to get to this panel. And then another click would be necessary to open the coordinates panel. Next to it, existing solution usually means a one click on the "Edit" button in the bottom panel and next click to edit coordinates. As I see, it is equal to the old solution.
So I see no significant benefit to add this editing capability directly to the point detail.
Feel free to convince me if I miss something here, thanks.
Hi Sonny,
is this really needed? "Coordinates" panel is usually a little lower in the point/geocache screen so you need a scroll this screen up to get to this panel. And then another click would be necessary to open the coordinates panel. Next to it, existing solution usually means a one click on the "Edit" button in the bottom panel and next click to edit coordinates. As I see, it is equal to the old solution.
So I see no significant benefit to add this editing capability directly to the point detail.
Feel free to convince me if I miss something here, thanks.
Hi Menion,
well, regarding my friends, (and also me to be honest ;-) Yes! Clicking onto Coordinates is not only (little) faster by saving 1 click. But more important: It's much more intuitive to change or translate coordinates by just clicking onto them than to search for the correct menu-entry this could be done. This was ideal in Locus 3 but missing in Locus 4. My friends even used other apps instead to translate coordinates, since they didn't know how this could be done in Locus 4 where clicking onto coordinates got "muted" ;-)
My friends are not Locus-newbies, they regularly use it for Gecaching since years. But they certainly don't know that clicking onto "Edit" and after that onto "grid"-icon will get them there. And if I teach them, they don't know it 2 months later.. ;-)
Thats how "non-app-experts" think, work and forget. Therefor I would support any idea to make the user-interface for a certain task more intuitive. (just to be clear: addditional re-implementing coordinate-click in Locus 4 should of course keep the existing solution by "Edit")
Hi Menion,
well, regarding my friends, (and also me to be honest ;-) Yes! Clicking onto Coordinates is not only (little) faster by saving 1 click. But more important: It's much more intuitive to change or translate coordinates by just clicking onto them than to search for the correct menu-entry this could be done. This was ideal in Locus 3 but missing in Locus 4. My friends even used other apps instead to translate coordinates, since they didn't know how this could be done in Locus 4 where clicking onto coordinates got "muted" ;-)
My friends are not Locus-newbies, they regularly use it for Gecaching since years. But they certainly don't know that clicking onto "Edit" and after that onto "grid"-icon will get them there. And if I teach them, they don't know it 2 months later.. ;-)
Thats how "non-app-experts" think, work and forget. Therefor I would support any idea to make the user-interface for a certain task more intuitive. (just to be clear: addditional re-implementing coordinate-click in Locus 4 should of course keep the existing solution by "Edit")
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