Hakon, Great idea. I haven't looked at the code, but am interested to know: * Some events which get resent, like mouse moves when panning are ok to drop * Other one-off events, like click to query should not be dropped.
Are you able to distinguish between the two? Håkon wrote: > Hi, > > The wiki said that I should mail the list after posting a patch to > trac, so here I am. Description from trac: > "When the openlayers map is dragged around, a lot of events are sent, > and the map is updated on every one of them, which takes quite some > time. Because of this, the map feels slow, especially on old > computers. This can be solved by creating a short timeout when the > event is received, which will update the map a little later. Any > events inbetween are ignored. > > I created a patch with a possible way to implement this. It passes the > unit tests and it appears to work well in most browsers (tested in > Firefox 2, Opera 9.5 Beta and IE 6 (IEs for Linux)). If you run the > two versions side by side, you can really feel a difference. > > The updateMap-method in my patch would probably be more logical as an > anonymous function in the timeout-call, but then a the function would > have been created every time the timeout is created instead of only > once when OSM is loaded. > > I don't know the code structure in OpenLayers very well, so there > might be better ways to implement it." > > It was pointed out that maybe the ticket was created under the wrong > component. I have no idea, so I'll have to ask some of you whether it > is in the right position, and if not, where it should be. > > The wiki also said that I should state clearly that I wanted the patch > reviewed, so, ehm... I want the patch reviewed. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Software http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
