[OpenLayers-Users] Popup closebox and formatting.

[kaka]

I have so far used text files for marker info since it was an easy way of
starting with OpenLayers, but I am, of course, always interested in better
ways of performing the task, so any suggestions are warmly welcome.

Regards,

Magnus



Eric Lemoine-2 wrote:
> 
> On 6/2/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:00:23PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>> > On 6/2/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>> > >On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>> > >> On 5/31/07, kaka <drspencer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I am trying to add a closebox to some markers, but I can??t get
>> the
>> > >close
>> > >> > boxes to show up. See
>> http://www.villageografica.com/test50/test.html
>> > >for a
>> > >> > test. The markers are located in
>> > >> > http://www.villageografica.com/test50/ProjectLocations.txt . What
>> am I
>> > >doing
>> > >> > wrong here?
>> > >>
>> > >> Unfortunatly I don' think you can have closeboxes with a Text layer.
>> > >> Indeed, the Text layer uses feature.createPopup()  as opposed to
>> > >> feature.createPopup(true). What you can do is create a class that
>> > >> inherits from OpenLayers.Layer.Text and overrides the markerClick()
>> > >> method - something along these lines (*untested*) :
>> > >
>> > >Just to throw my weight behind this: this is probably true at the
>> > >moment, and Eric's suggested fix is about right (though I've similarly
>> > >not tested it). I would consider this a bug though, and would take a
>> > >patch to fix it.
>> >
>> > Christopher, what's the actual rationale behind having OL providing a
>> > default onclick callback for features of a Text layer? Wouldn't it be
>> > better to have a more generic mechanism where the user can choose the
>> > events (and associated callbacks) attached to its Text layer's
>> > features? Perhaps at this point you just want to avoid breaking
>> > backward compatibilty and therefore keep that default onclick callback
>> > thing?
>>
>> The text layer is designed for people who can't write Javascript --
>> specifically, it's designed to support the MVS -- map viewer service, at
>> http://openlayers.org/viewer/ -- it's not designed to be subclassed.
> 
> I understand what the text layer is for. What I don't understand is
> why OpenLayers provides a default onclick callback. Would you accept a
> patch where the programmer can specify events and callbacks at layer
> creation time?
> 
> layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Text("foo", {
>     location: "file.txt",
>     events : {
>         "click" : click_callback,
>         "mouseover" : mouseover_callback
>     }
> });
> 
>> I'm not sure I understand why people would want to use a text layer
>> rather than something like georss. Are there really that many OpenLayers
>> users who just use excel and still want to do more fancy things with a
>> text layer?
> 
> Dunno. Maybe kaka could sched some light...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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