[OpenLayers-Dev] clearing handlers

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Right that was my concern, and my use case used to be (the bug is now 
fixed fortunately) clearing the sketch layer of the measure control. 
Since the measure control can have different types of Handlers I would 
now need to do different things according to which is the underlying 
Handler.

Btw the bug was that when using the mouse wheel for zooming, the measure 
geometry would not scale so it needed to be cleared.

Best regards,
Bart

Eric Lemoine wrote:
> I guess Bart is saying that the RegularPolygon handler has an API
> method named "clear" (which clear the sketch layer's renderer and
> destroy the features in that layer), which the other drawing handlers
> don't have. I'm personally wondering why "clear" is in an API method
> in the reg polygon handler in the first place. Eric
>
> 2008/11/7, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>:
>   
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:10:20AM +0100, bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> why is the interface for clearing handlers not standardized? Maybe there
>>> is a good reason for it that I am missing.
>>>       
>> Why do you need to clear handlers? I'm not seeing the use case, I don't
>> think.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> For Handler/RegularPolygon.js the function is called clear. It will clear
>>> the renderer of the layer and call destroyFeatures() on the layer.
>>>
>>> For Handler/Path.js, Handler/Point.js and Handler/Polygon.js you have to
>>> call destroyFeature directly.
>>>
>>> Would it not be better to have a API method called clear on all these
>>> Handlers?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bart
>>>
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Bart van den Eijnden
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