[OpenLayers-Users] Auto toggling other controls off when using multiple external control panels

[Josh Rosenthal]

Hi All,
I'm running into a bit of a snag and am hoping someone can offer some
advice.  I'm trying to build a map with multiple control panels, ie: Basic
Navigation, Querying (draw a shape, generate a query based off the shape)
etc.  For the most part its going quite well, but I'm running into a problem
where I activate a control in one panel, click on a button in another panel,
and the original controls remain active and both try to run... in other
words, I'll turn on an Info control, and then switch to DrawPoint, and it'll
be trying to do both.  Controls deactivate other controls within their own
panel when clicked, but don't seem to know to deactivate the other panel's
controls.

Is there a straightforward way to do this?  Thus far, the best idea I've
come up with (shown below) is setting a listener for each control when it
activates, such that it runs through everything in the other panel.controls,
and deactivates them all.  This strikes me as painfully awkward, and gets
extremely annoying to scale if I choose to add a few more panels.  Is there
any way to make the panels aware of each other's existence such that they
deactivate the controls appropriately (or can anyone suggest a better of
implementing this)?

Thanks!

Josh


given two external panels, panel and selPan2, run the following at the end
of initialization.

for (eachControl in panel.controls) {

 panel.controls[eachControl].events.register("activate",selPan2.controls,function
() {
        for (otherControls in this) {
            this[otherControls].deactivate();
        }
    });
}

for (eachControl in selPan2.controls) {

 selPan2.controls[eachControl].events.register("activate",panel.controls,function
() {
        for (otherControls in this) {
            this[otherControls].deactivate();
        }
    });
}
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