Hi Alex, dont have it with me now, but I remember i wrote here my first idea http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1596
...i think i made it little different at the end....but similar. Will let you know tomorrow. Cheers On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Alexandre Dube <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ivan, Eric, > > I was actually thinking a similar idea. The more I thought about it, the > more I thought about copying/pasting the SelectFeature control, make some > changes to the copy and name it HighlightFeature. But Eric's idea is much > better. > > Having the control itself know which feature it has selected + having its > own events could enable the possibility of having multiple SelectFeature > controls for a single layer. Having both selecting on hover and/or click > won't matter except for the style and the renderIntent applied to the > selected feature. I guess the last declared control would have the last > word of determining those... > > About that, what if we want 2 different colors for each ctrl ? Having 2 > selectfeature ctrls doing the same thing ( hover and click ) is not very > logic, but let's say one select on hover, the other on click, it would be > nice be able to have 2 different styles for each action. But how could we > do that ? (I guess I don't fully understand the whole renderIntent stuff > yet... Could we specify a specific renderIntent for the selectFeature ? > Could "select" be the default value and we could be able to set our own ?) > To do so without changing the renderIntent of the feature is to change its > style only, without selecting it. > > Ivan's idea (selectOnHover:false) sounds good. I'd like to see the code > and try it. Ivan, could you share what you've done ? At the same time, I'd > like to try to add events to the control and its selectedFeatures array, > like Eric said. > > Finally, I would like to know more about what you think about all this. > > Best regards, > > Alexandre > > Ivan Grcic wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Eric Lemoine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Alexandre Dube <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Eric, >>>> >>>> I took a look at the SelectFeature control. Now I understand what you >>>> meant and it makes sense. Also, it's also making sense to have this >>>> control >>>> have the possibility to highlight on hover or on click. >>>> >>>> "beforefeaturehighlighted" and "featurehighlighted" events make sense, >>>> but >>>> a "featureunhighlighted" (or some other term meaning that the feature >>>> was >>>> highlighted and is now no more) would also be useful. >>>> >>> >>> Alexandre, >>> >>> The more I think about this highlight feature control the more I think >>> there's no room for both a select feature and a highlight feature >>> controls. >>> >>> >> >> Same opinion here. We already have a bunch of controls, and now adding >> two very similar ones... >> >> Currently im using slightly modified SelectFeature control, i added >> one more option to it: selectOnHover, thats how i quickly solved the >> problem of only highlighting feature without selecting it. >> >> If selectOnHover is true, feature is selected&higlighted (select >> method is called) on hover, if its false feature is only higlighted, >> not selected. >> >> >>> >>> What causes people trouble is that they can't use two select feature >>> controls, one in hover mode and the other in click mode. This is >>> because once a feature is hovered it is selected, and cannot be >>> selected again when it is clicked. >>> >>> Maybe we could modify the select feature control so that (1) it >>> optionally uses its own selectedFeatures array, as opposed to relying >>> on the layer's, and (b) defines its own "beforefeatureselected", >>> "featureselected" and "featureunselected" event types. In this way, >>> one should be able to use two select feature controls, and get >>> "featureselected" events, from the first control when features are >>> hovered and from the second control when features are clicked. >>> >>> Tell me what you think, >>> >>> >> >> >>> >>> -- >>> Eric >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Alexandre Dubé > Mapgears > www.mapgears.com > > -- Ivan Grcic _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
