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

[Tim Schaub]

I like the behavior of other vector drawing software I've used where a 
modifier key suspends the behavior of the activated tool or temporarily 
activates another.

For example, in Illustrator, the space bar temporarily activates the 
Hand Tool (for dragging) while drawing.  This makes for fast 
drawing/navigating and I think there are a lot of folks that already 
work with this type of environment.

I know Google does it differently, but I don't necessarily think we have 
to follow.

Tim

On 1/12/11 8:58 AM, Bruno Binet wrote:
> On 12 January 2011 16:15, Andreas Hocevar<ahocevar at opengeo.org>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I agree, but we may adapt the snapping control to overcome this
> limitation. By example we could show a sketch point when the mouse
> pointer is located in a snapping area.
>
>> Andreas.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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