[OpenLayers-Users] Displaying a popup on mouse over AND a different popup on click.

[Adrian Popa]

Thank you for your suggestion - I will try it and let you know how it works!

Regards,
Adrian

Alexandre Dube wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
>  Take a look at this example (1).  You can use 2 SelectFeature 
> controls for what you need, one with hover:true and 
> highlightOnly:true, the other with hover false.  The first one won't 
> actually select the feature and you can register 3 kinds of 
> "highlight" events (see the source) to display your small div/popup.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Alexandre
>
> (1) http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/highlight-feature.html
>
> Adrian Popa wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This is sort of a repeat message of "Re: [OpenLayers-Users] 
>> Labels/Tooltips on mouse over a Vector layer" - but with a slightly 
>> different idea.
>>
>> Problem: I want to display a small div/popup with the marker's name 
>> when the user hovers his mouse over the location, and I want to 
>> display a bigger popup when the user actually clicks on the location.
>>
>> Current status:
>> * I can use {hover: true} to register 
>> featureselected/featureunselected when I hover over a marker instead 
>> on when I click on the maker.
>> * I haven't found any events that could differentiate between hover 
>> and click
>>
>> I'm thinking I could register my select control with hover: true and 
>> allow featureselected to execute the same function for both when I 
>> click on the makrer as well as when I hover over the marker. I would  
>> like to know if there's any way to find out in the event inside the 
>> function if the user clicked or not his mouse. Depending on this, I 
>> would show one popup or the other.
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> select = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(markers, 
>> {clickout:true, hover:true});
>>         markers.events.on({ "featureselected": onMarkerSelect, 
>> "featureunselected": onMarkerUnselect, "visibilitychanged": 
>> onMarkerToggle });
>>         map.addControl(select);
>>         select.activate();
>>
>> function onMarkerSelect(event){
>>     var feature = event.feature;
>>     //find out if the user clicked or not
>>     var clicked = event.*findAWayToSeeIfTheUserClicked()*;
>>     if(clicked){
>>        //show larger popup
>>     }
>>     else{
>>        //show smaller popup
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> Suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adrian
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