[OpenLayers-Dev] feature events

[mickeyholland]

Hi Tim,

I tried your "FeatureAgent"...

"featureclick" works fine.
"featureover" and "featureout" do not fire.

In your modified (sandbox) Vector.js file, I could find "featureclick", but
not the other 2 events, listed at line 99. "EVENT_TYPES"

Is it possible this could be a reason for the events not firing, or should I
be looking at my own code?

Thanks!
Michael.

ps. I add my vote for this to be included as an OpenLayers feature.




Ivan Grcic-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> Hey-
>>
>> We've wrestled for some time with browser events being blocked by
>> svg/vml elements.  This originally meant that you could only use a
>> select feature control with one layer at a time.  Andreas contributed a
>> nice solution for selecting features on multiple layers for the last
>> release.
>>
>> I got a number of things wrong in the select feature control (layer gets
>> selectedFeatures array [ack] and control maintains it [ug], control has
>> select method but layer doesn't, you can't easily deal with
>> feature/mouse interaction without getting all the select feature control
>> behavior, etc.)  I've long wanted to just have vector layers trigger
>> feature related events.
>>
>> I put together what seems like a potential solution:
>> http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/tschaub/select/examples/feature-events.html
>>
>> This introduces a "FeatureAgent" constructor.  If a map has the
>> "featureEvents" property set to true, it gets a feature agent that
>> manages feature related events (from click and mousemove).  This gives
>> us featureclick, nofeatureclick, featureover, and featureout event on
>> vector layers.
>>
>> As described in the example, these events are fired for visible vector
>> layers.  The over/out events are similar to mouseover/mouseout for other
>> doc elements - except that all features on all layers are essentially
>> treated as if they share the same z-index.  This means you get over/out
>> for every feature on every layer as you pass over and out.  Similarly,
>> the featureclick event "drills" through all features on all layers.  You
>> get the event once for each of multiple overlapping features on a single
>> layer or the same on multiple layers.  Listeners are triggered for
>> features in reverse draw order (top first).  Any listener can return
>> false to stop remaining listeners from getting called.
>>
>> The whole thing relies on document.elementFromPoint [1].  This is a
>> handy method that accounts for the currently computed style of all
>> elements.  The trick is to set the display style to none for each target
>> and call the method again, until all targets on all layers have been
>> accounted for.  All this happens in a single browser event listener
>> sequence.  Since style display is getting set and reset for all targets
>> during the same sequence, we don't trigger a reflow with each display
>> change.  It appears that there also isn't a reflow at the end of the
>> listener sequence either (though I need some heavier examples to test
>> with).
>>
>> I've played with the example on Firefox 3.5 and IE 6.  Haven't tested
>> other browsers yet.
>>
>> There are a number of ways this could be implemented:
>>
>> a) As a control.  Traditional, but we don't need the dom element or
>> events object - and this may be a more awkward way in practice.
>>
>> b) As it is now.  The agent is added/activated if a map property is set.
>>  Could also be added/activated after map construction.
>>
>> c) Crammed into Map.js.  I'd rather not do this.
>>
>> d) Other (handler, plugin, more).
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback.
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.elementFromPoint
>>
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