[OpenLayers-Users] programmatically select feature to modify - worked in 2.7 but doesn't in 2.8

[Michael Anderson]

Thank you very much Eric. I modified the real application according to your 
suggestions and it works great.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Lemoine" <eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com>
To: "Michael Anderson" <mike at spatialit.com>
Cc: <users at openlayers.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] programmatically select feature to modify - 
worked in 2.7 but doesn't in 2.8


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Michael Anderson<mike at spatialit.com> 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an app that works in 2.7 but not in 2.8. What I need to do is
> programmatically select a feature and select it for editing. Works fine in
> 2.7. In 2.8 the feature is selected, but the vertices are not displayed 
> and
> it's not editable.
>
> When I initially got it working I sort of stumbled on to it and was a 
> little
> surprised it worked. I created both ModifyFeature and SelectFeature 
> controls
> on the same layer, and then if I activated the modify control and selected
> the feature with the select control the feature was selected and editable.
> I'm thinking it wasn't supposed to work this way and was corrected in 2.8.
>
> I created a simplified example, which is attached to this message. The 
> html
> page is also available here in case the it doesn't come through:
> http://128.118.7.3/testing/testSelect.html. To run it just hit the 
> 'Select'
> button in the upper left corner.
>
> The example is using 2.7 from a server I control so it works. If you 
> comment
> out the javascript reference on line 4 and uncomment the one on line 3 it
> will use the hosted version of 2.8. Then it won't work.
>
> If I am correct that this shouldn't have worked before, is there a way I 
> can
> do the same think properly?

Hi. I made a couple changes to your example and got it to work both
with 2.7 and 2.8:

 - remove the select control
 - activate the modify control after it is added to the map
 - programmatically select the feature through the modify feature
control's internal select feature control
 - add a hack to fool the select feature control's feature handler
(related to <http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2204>).

Also note that ModifyFeature in trunk includes the property
"standalone", which may just accommodate your case. See
<http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Control/ModifyFeature-js.html#OpenLayers.Control.ModifyFeature.standalone>

Cheers,

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