Alexandre, Thanks. I am aware of method but it's not quite what I am trying to do. MapInfo (and probably other GIS software) has the "edge panning" functionality that I am attempting to reproduce.
Best regards, Rich On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Alexandre Dube <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > "With any drawing control active, paning the map can still be achieved. > Drag the map as usual for that." as mentioned and demonstrated in this > [example]. It is a default behavior now. Could that do the trick for you ? > > Regards, > > Alexandre > > [example] http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/draw-feature.html > > > > On 12-02-17 12:11 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote: >> >> I think this has come up a couple times but I don't know if anyone has >> implemented it yet. I'd like develop a feature that would >> automatically pan the map a fixed amount when the user is drawing and >> "bumps" up against an edge of the map window. Has anyone already done >> this? Is anyone interested in working with me on it? I'm thinking of a >> method that would monitor mouse moves and when the mouse reached the >> top, bottom, left or right pixel of the map window it would pan the >> map south, north, east or west, respectively, by ~20%. This would >> allow the use to draw features, or measure, beyond the extent of the >> map that was initially visible when they started. >> >> Best regards, >> Rich >> > > > -- > Alexandre Dubé > Mapgears > www.mapgears.com > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
