[OpenLayers-Users] layers drawing order

[Guillaume Sueur]

Christopher Schmidt a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:21:52PM +0200, Guillaume Sueur wrote:
>> 1. yes, but it should speed up the whole thing, not indicate a specific 
>> drawing order shouldn't it ? But, sure, I should do that anyway.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> 2. that will change the organisation of the map, which is not the goal 
>> either.
> 
> Tht wasn't clear from your original message.

sorry for that unforgivable lack of precision ! I did my best though !

> 
>> would it be difficult to add a layer drawingOrder option and make the 
>> map render them in that order ?
> 
> Not extremely, but I don't know that it's worth it for OpenLayers core.
> It would mean looping over all the layers more than once (once to build
> the drawing order, once to actually call moveTo) in Map.moveTo. Also, it
> wouldn't help once the layers start drawing, so if you add a layer, call
> setCente,r then add another layer, it wouldn't help.
> 
> In any case, feel free to take a look at Map.oveTo and see if it makes
> sense.
> 
> Regards,

ok, I'll have a look at it. Thanks


G