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

[Paul Spencer]

Eric

I think the new behaviour is much more intuitive, I especially like that it disables pan while drawing when freehand mode activates.  Excellent job.

Paul

On 2011-01-18, at 11:01 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Eric Lemoine
> <eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
>>> I should add.  I'll be interested to hear what you think about supporting freehand and snapping together.  This is a combination of functionality that we're relying on.
>> 
>> When drawing in freehand mode (for example with the freehand modifier
>> key pressed) we could just dynamically make "pan while drawing"
>> ineffective. So the freehand snapping combination would pretty much
>> work like today.
> 
> The examples at
> <http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/elemoine/draw-feature/examples/draw-feature.html>
> and exemplifies this.
> 
> My patch alters the user experience - points are added on mouseup, and
> a point is drawn on activate. Given that I'm happy to create new
> handlers, and place them in a new addin. This addin could be used as
> an incubation home, and inclusion into the lib could be considered
> later, for OpenLayers 3 for example.
> 
> Thank you for any comment,
> 
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