[OpenLayers-Users] Copying the style in a StyleMap into each feature?

[Nick Whitelegg]

I'm developing an application which shows a GeoRSS vector layer overlay 
over an OSM map (see http://www.free-map.org.uk/fe/). I want people to be 
able to rotate each camera icon which corresponds to a feature from the 
GeoRSS.

I do this by adding a DragFeature control and overriding the moveFeature() 
method so that the feature is rotated, not
moved, on drag. However, to get the camera icon to rotate, I have to 
re-specify the style already specified in the
StyleMap for the layer. This is because loading a StyleMap does not 
automatically apply a "style" attribute to each
feature. e.g.:

moveFeature: function(pixel)
{
 
     if (!this.feature.style)
      {
         this.feature.style = 
                              { externalGraphic: 'images/cam.png',
                                  graphicHeight: 16,
                                graphicWidth: 16,
                                rotation: 0 };
      }

 
       this.feature.style.rotation = 
         (this.feature.style.rotation < 350) ?
          this.feature.style.rotation+10: 0;
       this.layer.drawFeature(this.feature)
}

This works, but seems inefficient. Is there any way of telling OL to 
automatically copy the style for the layer specified in the StyleMap into 
the "style" attribute of each feature when a layer is loaded?

Thanks,
Nick