[OpenLayers-Dev] How to cancel layer loading?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:44:56PM +0100, Juan G wrote:
>  > Hello everybody!
>  >
>  > Is there a good-elegant way to cancel a layer while it´s loading? I ´ve
>  > searched from the source code and I saw there is a "loadcancel" event in the
>  > Layer class, but I couldn´t find where is triggered.
>  >
>  > I need a "cancel" button for stopping loading layers that are loading at
>  > that moment, hence I need to know that issue.
>
>  OpenLayers has no such functionality. It is likely *not* possible, since
>  browsers don't appear to have any kind of sane cancel/abort operation:
>  I've never  gotten a cancel call to actually stop the loading. However,
>  I haven't spent that much time on it: it might be possible, but
>  OpenLayers doesn't do it.

I did a bit of investigation on that a couple months ago. I found no
way to achieve it.

--
Eric