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

[Claude Philipona]

Hi Eric,

I think this is just perfect in term of usability. Nice job Eric.

Claude

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 15:26, Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> 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.
>
> Thanks for explaining.
>
> Some of us here at Camptocamp have discussed this a bit further, and
> we've come up with a potential solution to this issue, where the first
> point to be laid down is drawn as the soon as the control is active
> (or the previous feature is finalized).
>
> See the demo on
> <http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/elemoine/draw-feature/examples/snapping.html>.
> You should have a point following the mouse as soon as the draw tool
> is made active in the toolbar.
>
> Cheers,
>
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