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

[Pierre GIRAUD]

I can have a look at the code myself, but does the ModifyFeature
control takes care of setting the UPDATE state to modify features ?

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Eric Lemoine <eric.c2c at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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