On 6/10/07, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21:16PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote: > > Hello > > > > I have a design question: what exactly is a control in openlayers? > > What's the concept behind it? How would you define a control? > > > > Personally I'd define a control as anything that changes the map > > behavior. I know this is quite a broad definition, but I feel the > > current set of controls covers lots of different things. Do you share > > my view of controls? > > I believe that's how we designated it, though I think we actually went > with 'interacts with the map', since controls also (for example) display > the mouse position or the scale. > > So yes, things which interact with the map are controls. > > Handlers, on the other hand, interact only with events for the most > part, and pass events up to controls to interact with the map.
Thanks for the clarification Christopher. -- Eric _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
