[OpenLayers-Dev] Map event confusion

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Tim,

comments inline.

Tim Schaub schrieb:
> I'm in favor of removing this cruft as well.
>
> To be clear, here are things that "work" currently:
>
>      // myapp.js
>
>      map.events.on({
>          popupopen: myPopupOpenListener,
>          // and the rest
>      });
>
>      var openPopup = function() {
>          var pop = createPopup();  // defined elsewhere
>          pop.show();
>          map.events.triggerEvent("popupopen", {popup: pop});
>      }
>
> Currently, if application code makes use of the events listed below, the 
> corresponding event listeners get called appropriately.
>
> After removing these entries from the EVENT_TYPES array, these listeners 
> will not get called.
>   

I proposed to remove them from the docs, not the EVENT_TYPES array. Any 
application having code like yours will continue to work. As for the 
release *after* 2.10, I'd suggest changing the array as well.

BTW: I opened the ticket (it's #2553), see 
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2553

Regards,
Marc

> Again, I'm fine with this.  Just wanted to be clear that we are changing 
> the behavior of any applications that might be using these named events 
> (perhaps none).
>
> Tim
>
>   
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