[OpenLayers-Dev] "allow pan while drawing" patch

[Andreas Hocevar]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 14:15 , Eric Lemoine wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> thanks for your efforts. My only concern is that adding vertices on mouseup instead of mousedown negatively affects the user experience when a Snapping control is used. This is because the user doesn't see any more where the vertex is going to be snapped to.
>> 
>> At this point, I have no idea how to solve this.
> 
> Could you please elaborate? Do you see ux issues on
> <http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/elemoine/draw-feature/examples/snapping.html>?

Yes. Placing the first vertex of a line (in the example) or a point (in general) is a shot in the dark - you never know where it snaps to.

Andreas.

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