I have no idea if this is built into openlayers, but this seems like something you could create with just some simple javascript. Attach a mouse move event to the document, and a boolean variable in the global scope which tells you whether an item is currently being dragged (this can be set up in an event handler for the vector feature). Then in the move event, if there is an item being dragged, grab the mouse position, and if you are nearing the edge of the screen, have openlayers move the map.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM, j5c077 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremyswilson@att.net">jeremyswilson@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
i've tried setting the documentdrag to true however when dragging the feature<br>
it still stops once i reach the edge of the viewport<br>
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