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

[Alexandre Dube]

I agree with Tim.  Being a part time user of Adobe products, I really 
like these kinds of key shortcut while editing.  This is an excellent idea.

Alexandre


On 11-01-12 11:11 AM, Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.
>>

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Alexandre Dubé
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