[OpenLayers-Users] ZoomToExtent of KML File

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:27:07AM +0000, Peter Robins wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008, Christopher Schmidt-2 wrote:
> > I assume you create your layer, and then immediately call getDataExtent 
> > on it, before the KML has loaded. Listen to the layer's loadend event, 
> > and then call getDataExtent when it has loaded. 
> 
> I've been experimenting with this, and it looks to me like 'loadend' won't 
> fire until the map has been centered. If I adapt one of the OL example files 
> to look something like:

That's correct. Specifically, this is because we can't be sure that the
layer will need to be loaded until moveTo is called.

You can call the non-API "loadGML()" function to force a load of the 
layer instead of letting it wait.

http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/GML-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.GML.loadGML

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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