[OpenLayers-Users] SelectFeature hover control interfering with click-and-drag

[Roald de Wit]

Hi Robert,

It seems you are/were very close to the solution of you problem: to
allow for the map to be dragged when your mouse pointer is over a
selectable feature, you need to override the stopDown and stopUp
attributes of the handler, just as you have in your code below (but then
uncommented!).

Could you explain why you have these lines commented out? Have you tried
uncommenting them? What version of OL are you using? 2.7-rc1, 2.6 or an
older version?

Today crschidt explained to me that in 2.7 the SelectFeature control
behaves a bit differently internally and in order for the fix work,
you'd need to rewrite the code. See [1]

But this might not apply to you and you might have other reasons why it
won't work for you.

Cheers, Roald

[1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SelectFeatureControlMapDragIssues
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 06:56 +0930, Robert Sanson wrote: 
> I have an OL map that has a GML polygon layer (loaded from a WFS
> source). I have a SelectFeature control that operates using hover:true
>  
>                 var options = {
>                     hover: true,
>                     onSelect: function(feature) { 
>                     OpenLayers.Util.getElement('selfarm').innerHTML =
> "<strong>Farm_id:</strong>" + feature.attributes.FARM_ID + "
> <strong>Par_no:</strong>" + feature.attributes.PAR_ID
>                     }
>  
>                 };
>                 var select = new
> OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(fbnd, options);
>                 map.addControl(select);
>                 //select.handler.stopDown = false;
>                 //select.handler.stopUp = false;
>                 select.activate();
>  
> Anyway, when I hover over a polygon, I get a a couple of the
> attributes displayed in a div below the map. The problem I have is
> that the normal click-and-drag control used for panning the map does
> not work when I drag on a polygon feature. It only works when I drag
> in a part of the map without one of these polygons.
>  
> Any clues?
>  
> Many thanks,
>  
> Robert Sanson
> 
> 
> 
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Roald de Wit
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