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

[Tim Schaub]

Sure, just don't mess with snapping :)  There are people who have 
already paid for the current set of behavior.

An option to pan as you get near the edge seems like a nice compromise. 
  My favorite will still be space bar to suspend drawing.

On 1/12/11 9:58 AM, Emmanuel Belo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please take into account that we have currently 2 customers running
> broad audience websites who request the suggested behaviour. There is
> some funding for a draw/pan function without modifiers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emmanuel Belo
> --
> Sent from my mobile phone
>
> Le 12 janv. 2011 17:35, "Bruno Binet" <bruno.binet at camptocamp.com
> <mailto:bruno.binet at camptocamp.com>> a écrit :
>  > I think that using modifier is actually more effective, but that would
>  > also mean it focus on experienced users that knows about modifiers.
>  > In my opinion, the google way to do it is more user friendly because
>  > targeted to basic users, whereas desktop applications such as
>  > illustrator are targeted to more expert users.
>  >
>  > On 12 January 2011 17:11, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org
> <mailto:tschaub at opengeo.org>> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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,
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>> --
>  >>>>> Eric Lemoine
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