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

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wednesday, January 19, 2011, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
> On 1/18/11 9:01 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.
>
>
> I think this looks excellent and deserves a home in the trunk.  I'm sure there will be things to work through in editing applications.  I'd suggest that we should put out a wide requests for reviews based on a completed patch.
>
> Thanks for the work on this.  I look forward to testing it out in a few applications.


It sounds like a good idea. I'm looking forward to working on it
again. I've identified issues with persist:true, and I'm sure I'll
come across others when doing the real implementation.

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