[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers.Handler has APIMethod's!

[Lourens Veen]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:11:38 Eric Lemoine wrote:
> Hello
>
> OpenLayers.Handler includes methods annotated as APIMethod's. I'm a
> bit surprised with that. To me, handlers belong to OpenLayers
> internals and shouldn't be part of OpenLayers API. What do you think?

I just wrote a custom control called SelectBox. It'll let you select features 
in one or more vector layers by either clicking (all features under the mouse 
will be selected) or dragging a box (all features completely within the box 
will be selected). I'm hoping this will help deal with overlapping features.

Because OpenLayers has this nice Handler/Control architecture, setting this up 
was a breeze. I used the Box handler (used by the ZoomBox control) from my 
own SelectBox control, and all I had to do was write the actual selection 
code based on the input from the handler.

Of course, to be able to do that, handlers need to have a stable public 
interface, and thus be part of the API.

Cheers,

Lourens

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