[OpenLayers-Dev] Hiding Layers from the Layer Switcher

[Peterson Eric-EEP002]

Ah! Perfect! Thank you!

-eP 

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:dev-bounces at openlayers.org] On
Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:02 PM
To: dev at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Hiding Layers from the Layer Switcher

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:52:53PM -0400, Peterson Eric-EEP002 wrote:
> What I would REALLY like is some way to merge both markers and vectors

> together into a single layer, so that when I select/deselect that 
> layer in the Layer Switcher, both markers and vectors appear/disappear

> concurrently. But I realize that due to the architecture of OL, it 
> might not be possible to do that.

In trunk, it is possible to symbolize a 'point' as an icon, so you could
essentially achieve this goal. However, you've asked about 2.4, so I'll
continue with more information on that below.

> Alternately, I could achieve the result I want if the following 
> additions were made to the layer code:
> 
> 1. Have a property associated with a layer that causes it to appear in

> the Layer Switcher list. This could be set as an option while 
> constructing a new Layer object, and the Layer Switcher could pay 
> attention to this property when generating the layer form.

displayInLayerSwitcher option on the layer: 

http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer-js.html#OpenLay
ers.Layer.displayInLayerSwitcher

> 2. When a layer is selected or deselected in the Layer Switcher, 
> trigger a "showlayer" or "hidelayer" event.

The event you are talking about is the 'changelayer' event, on the Map
object. This event fires any time a layer is changed, and you can then
loop through the layers and call:

http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer-js.html#OpenLay
ers.Layer.getVisibility

Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
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