[OpenLayers-Users] Drawing polygons

[Mike Quentel]

That's a very cool Canvas drawing demo.  

Here is what I'm wanting to do: integrate RichDraw 

http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/richdraw/richdraw_demo.htm


with OpenLayers.  RichDraw creates both SVG and VML
according to browser.  

Where would I turn on/off the OpenLayers mouse event
capture?  I'd like to make it possible to allow the
user to turn on drawing tools, and when this happens,
I don't want the mouse events to be captured by
OpenLayers, but when the drawing tools are off, I'd
like OpenLayers to resume capturing mouse events.

Many thanks.

Mike Quentel

--- Erik Uzureau <erik.uzureau at metacarta.com> wrote:

> Just for the record, if anyone is interested in the
> Cavanas layer, it could be
> adapted for use as one of the renderers in the new
> vector layer code.
> 
> There is a class called OpenLayers.Renderer
> (lib/OpenLayers/Renderer.js) which
> gives a skeleton of the necessary functionalities.
> You just subclass that and
> implement the draw/erase geometry functions, etc.
> 
> Erik
> 
> On 2/14/07, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:00:20AM -0600, Jeff
> Dege wrote:
> > > We have a need to draw polygons on a map.  The
> idea is to allow the
> > > users to interactively edit the boundaries of a
> number of field worker's
> > > service areas.  Driver X is responsible for work
> in area A, driver Y for
> > > area B, etc.  We need the users to be able to
> edit the boundaries of
> > > these areas, represented as arbitrary polygons.
> > >
> > > The points will be stored in our own database,
> we're not writing shape
> > > files.
> > >
> > > The question is, how do we do this in
> OpenLayers?  I've been seeing
> > > references to the vector layer - is this the
> sort of problem it is
> > > intended for?  Some time back, I saw references
> to a canvas layer.  Has
> > > that fallen by the wayside?
> >
> > The canvas layer was a proof of concept, that
> never really well
> > supported this behavior. (in fact, I don't think I
> ever supported
> > polygons with it.) The Vector branch, at
> > http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/vector/ , is
> exactly suited for this,
> > including storage to WFS backends, support for
> GML, etc. etc. etc.
> >
> >
>
http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/vector/examples/EditingDemo.html
> is
> > probably a decent example of the functionality in
> the Vector sandbox.
> >
> > Select the layer switcher, pick the radio button
> next to 'vector layer',
> > click 'draw linearRing', then draw on the map.
> >
> > The timeline for inclusion of the vector sandbox
> into the core of
> > OpenLayers is on the scale of 1-2 months.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Christopher Schmidt
> > MetaCarta
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