[OpenLayers-Dev] adding markers with popups as features.

[Fred Arters]

Hey Eric,

I looked into this a bit yesterday.. here is what I found.

According to the documentation and looking at the source the class  
Feature does not have a move method.

According to the documentation, the class Vector *does* have a move  
method.   However, if you attempt to call move on a vector object, it  
throws a javascript error saying the object has no move method.    
Looking at the source confirms that there is no move method.

The Vector's geometry attribute is a Point which has a move method.  I  
tried that and it did redraw the point but it draws it using relative  
pixels for the x, y values.   So move (5, 5) does not move it to lon:  
5, lat: 5 but it moves it 5px up and 5px to the right.

Looking at the source for the move method on the Point class I noticed  
move function does this.x = this.x + x.   Then it calls clearBounds().

So I did this...

function myMove(pID, pLon, pLat) {

     var v = vectorLayer.getFeatureById(pID);

     v.geometry.x = pLon;
     v.geometry.y = pLat;
     v.geometry.clearBounds();
     v.layer.drawFeature(v);
}

And that worked.   Though it feels like a hack.  Seems like there  
should be a move method to do this in addition to the move method to  
move a Point in relative pixels.

How would I suggest such a change or did I miss a more correct way to  
do this?

Thanks for you help on this btw.

-Fred


On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:35 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Fred Arters <fred at monkeytroy.com>  
> wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice.  I have it working now using Vector with an
>> externalSymbol style as you suggest.   Seems to work fine and a bit  
>> cleaner
>> as I don't have to add a separate pop up and marker for each feature.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Though I do have a question... what would be the correct way to  
>> then move
>> one of my marker as a vector?   For a feature all I had to do was  
>> set the
>> lonlat attribute and refresh the layer and it moved..  but that  
>> doesn't seem
>> to work with a Vector.  The documentation says there is a move  
>> function but
>> it fails and looking at the code does not seem to be there.
>
> Doing feature.move(px) or feature.move(lonlat) should work. Both the
> Feature.Vector and Geometry.Point classes include move methods. If
> that doesn't work, please come back with a simple example.
>
>
>>
>> I didn't see it but is there an example that does this too?
>
> No that I'm aware.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Eric