[OpenLayers-Dev] Draw boxes on the image pressing shift key

[Moiz Bhukhiya]

I see now what you're saying. I clicked on the checkbox and now the boxes
are inline of horizontal line. But is there a way to modify the box drawn?/

Thanks.
Moiz

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Moiz Bhukhiya <moiz.bhukhiya at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks alot Tim for your response.
>
> It seems like it will be helpful for resizing the square box, but how to
> move this square and the square box seems to be in 45 degree angle to the
> horizontal line. I need square to be drawn inline with horizontal line. It
> should be resizable by dragging it edges like we see in the Jquery plugin I
> mentioned. http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect
>
>
> Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.
> Moiz
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
>
>> On 8/4/10 12:31 PM, Moiz Bhukhiya wrote:
>> > Hello Devs,
>> >
>> > I am using Openlayers to display images from Djatoka Image server. I am
>> > using two different layers.
>> > 1. To draw boxes on an image which is OpenLayers.Layer.Boxes
>> > 2. To dynamically draw boxes on images I am using OpenLayers.Control()
>> >
>> > Using Control() functionality I can draw boxes on the image pressing
>> > shift key and on mouse down, and on mouse up I can get the coordinates
>> > of the box on the image. On mouse up the box disappears and I get the
>> > coordinates. My problem is I do not want this box to disappear until I
>> > invoke it. I want to draw the box and resize it if required (like we do
>> > in Jquery crop plugin Eg:http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect )
>> >
>> > It would be of great help if you could guide me how do I achieve this
>> > functionality.
>> >
>>
>> Alternatively, you could use a Vector layer and a DrawFeature control
>> with a RegularPolygon handler.
>>
>> See http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/regular-polygons.html
>>
>> Sounds like an irregular polygon with four sides (rectangle) snapped to
>> 90 would give you want you want.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Moiz
>> >
>> >
>> >
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