[OpenLayers-Users] Adding a new feature with different graphics

[Eric Lemoine]

Hi Yves and Pierre

Note that the DrawFeature control now takes care of setting the INSERT
state into drawn features.

Cheers,
--
Eric

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com> wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> Thanx for the links !
>
> Yves
>
> Le samedi 13 décembre 2008 à 14:20 +0100, Pierre GIRAUD a écrit :
>> If I'm correct, what you want is to be able to distinguish vector
>> features by their state eg. update, insert, delete, unknown. The
>> vector features drawn by user and not yet committed to server would be
>> of insert state.
>>
>> Currently, there's already a "state" property for the Vector.Feature
>> class object.
>>
>> What you need is :
>>  - to set that state to "OpenLayers.State.INSERT" when the user draws
>> a new feature, you can easily do this with events at the layer's level
>> [1]
>>  - to have different styles for the different states. [2]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pierre
>>
>> [1] http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/protocol-gears.html
>> [2] http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/styles-unique.html
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm playing with something similar to
>> > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-formats.html and I was
>> > wondering what the approach is if I want to allow users to add e.g.
>> > points on an existing layer.vector object but with a different symbol.
>> > The idea is that I would like objects updated to an OL vector layer but
>> > not yet committed back to the server to show up in a different symbol
>> > than the rest of the features of the layer.
>> >
>> > One option I thought was to use an independent feature.vector object and
>> > then call the features it contains when committing to the layer.vector I
>> > want to update.  After committing, I would erase the feature.vector.
>> > Does that make sense ?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Yves
>> >
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