[OpenLayers-Users] Getting all points for a geom?

[Guillermo Lopez Mackinnon]

Ok. Many thanks again!
As I said I'll try it out and provide feedback :-)

Best regards,
Guillermo

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Adorian Ardelean <mynature at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guillermo,
>
> I have not tried it with a WFS layer, but I think it should work (I infer
> by looking at other examples on this list).
> You may add the control when you initialize the rest of other controls you
> use. The "..." stands for other controls :-)
>
> I think you have to create the layer before you create the controls for it.
> Just follow regular init() code as in other OL examples. Then when you want
> to get a feature info you may use some code to activate the featureinfocontrol
> (by click on a form entity, or image etc. associated with a "toggle"
> function).
>
> All the best,
> Adorian
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Guillermo Lopez Mackinnon <
> gmlopez.mackinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey! Many thanks!
>> That sounds like a great hint and like the correct approach too :-)!
>>
>> What should I do with the controls variable? Add it to the layer at
>> creation time?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> controls = {
>> ...
>> featureinfocontrol: new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(myvectorlayer,
>> {onSelect: featureinfo});
>> }
>>
>> var cities = new OpenLayers.Layer.WFS(
>>                 "Cities",
>>                 "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs",
>>                 {typename: 'topp:cities'},
>>                 {
>>                     typename: 'cities',
>>                     featureNS: 'http://www.openplans.org/topp',
>>                     extractAttributes: true,
>>                     controls: controls
>>
>>                 }
>>             );
>>
>> Is the code above correct? Did I understand correctly or do I have to add
>> this control to the map as the other controls?
>>
>> I'll try it out and let you know in case I have any problem. If it works
>> I'll post the solution.
>>
>>
>> Guillermo
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Adorian Ardelean <mynature at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guillermo,
>>>
>>> Look if you can use:
>>> *feature.attributes["city_name"]*
>>>
>>> example
>>> featureinfo = function(feature)
>>> {
>>> alert(*feature.attributes["city_name"])*;
>>> }
>>>
>>> controls = {
>>> ...
>>> featureinfocontrol: new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(myvectorlayer,
>>> {onSelect: featureinfo});
>>> }
>>> ...
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Adorian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Guillermo Lopez Mackinnon <
>>> gmlopez.mackinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reply!
>>>> Actually, I meant the feature attributes like for instance "city_name",
>>>> "population" and so on. I´d like to display some of them when the user
>>>> clicks on a feature and since I may have several layers, doing it in the way
>>>> I explained in my initial post it'll be pretty tedious so I'd say it should
>>>> be some other way (a correct way) of doing this kind of stuff. Am I right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for your help!
>>>>
>>>> Guillermo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Adorian Ardelean <mynature at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nino,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean all nodes of a polygon? If yes, you could explore Vector
>>>>> Formats Example in http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ where is shows
>>>>> also how you could output coordinates of a feature in various formats.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>> Adorian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael
>>>>> <nino.martinez at jayway.dk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I extract all points for a geometry?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.7/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Geometry/Collection-js.html#OpenLayers.Geometry.Collection
>>>>>> , do I need to call a field directly?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> -Wicket for love
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nino Martinez Wael
>>>>>> Java Specialist @ Jayway DK
>>>>>> http://www.jayway.dk
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>>>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Adorian Ardelean
> coordinator of myNature Project
>
> http://mybiosis.info/nature/portal.php?pagename=firstpage [a Romanian
> biodiversity-database]
> http://mybiosis.info/nature/portal.php?pagename=adorian [CV]
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