[OpenLayers-Users] Destroy not being called for popups?

[Glen Stampoultzis]

On 31/08/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 04:12:54PM +1000, Glen Stampoultzis wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > just been mucking around with popups and I noticed that the destroy
> method
> > does seem to get called.  The close poup button just hides the div from
> what
> > I can tell and the map.removePopup() call seems to remove the div from
> the
> > DOM without calling destroy and cleaning up the event handlers.
> >
> > Bug or feature?
>
> When would you call destroy? Certainly, a popup can be removed from the
> map without it being destroyed: it can be re-added at a later time, and
> we use that behavior in some applications here at MetaCarta.
>
> In general, removing things is not the same as destroying them, and
> depending on when they are created, you may have to clean up after
> yourself rather than depending on OpenLayers to do it for you.
>
> If you use a feature to create the popup, it destroys the popup for
> you. If you create your own, you're on your own.
>
>
It's just that popup doesn't provide any way for you to attach an event
indicating the user has closed the popup using the close button so how do
you know when to destroy?

Regards,

Glen
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