[OpenLayers-Users] Event registration in activate function

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi Alexandre,

Alexandre Dube wrote:
>   I'm writing my own Control and I need to register some events.  Doing 
> so in the initialize function isn't good because some objects are not 
> created yet ( like the map object ).  So I thought I could register them 
> in the activate() func and unregister them in the deactivate() func.
>
>   So far it was ok to do so, but now I'm facing a problem.  I need to 
> register events that, when triggered, deactivate the control, and other 
> events that, when triggered, reactivate the control.  It's a control 
> that can contain multiple layers that come from the same source but have 
> been normalized to render faster, so the user sees no difference when 
> zooming.

I would suggest registering your events in the setMap method of your
control. This will be called when you add the control to the map.

Regards,
Andreas.

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