[OpenLayers-Users] problem labeling vector features - vertices being labeled too

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:20:57PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 19, 2009, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:42:57AM -0400, Michael Anderson wrote:
> >> In the real app I'd tried setting the select style's label to an empty
> >> string, but it didn't work so I didn't include it in my example. I added
> >> it to the example (http://128.118.7.3/testing/testlabel.html). It makes
> >> the label for the polygon go away, but still labels the vertices with
> >> 'undefined'.
> >
> > Sorry; I forgot that for the modifyFeature, the style name used is
> > 'temporary';
> 
> is it? The modify feature control uses a select feature control, whose
> default select style is "select" IIRC.

Okay, grep failed me. So then what is the user doing wrong?

-- Chris

> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> > I think that if you change 'select' to 'temporary' it might
> > help.
> >
> > -- Chris
> >
> >
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Schmidt"
> >> <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
> >> To: "Michael Anderson" <mike at spatialit.com>
> >> Cc: <users at openlayers.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:06 AM
> >> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] problem labeling vector
> >> features - vertices being labeled too
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:56:12AM -0400, Michael Anderson wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm having a problem with labeling vector features. It works fine until I
> >>> select a feature with a ModifyFeature control. Then it labels all the
> >>> vertices as well as the feature itself. And they are all labeled
> >>> 'undefined'
> >>> because the vertices don't have the attributes needed for the label.
> >>>
> >>> I have a stylemap set up with 'default' and 'select' styles. Only the
> >>> default style has a label defined. At first I had a label set up for the
> >>> select style too so it would be labeled when selected. Then when the
> >>> vertices were labeled I removed the label from the style, but the vertices
> >>> are still labeled.
> >>
> >> "The “default” intent has a special role: if the extendDefault property
> >> of the StyleMap is set to true (default), symbolizers calculated for
> >> other render intents will extend the symbolizer calcualated for the
> >> “default” intent. So if we want selected features just to have a
> >> different size or color, we only have to set a single property (in this
> >> example: pointRadius)."
> >>
> >> -- http://docs.openlayers.org/library/feature_styling.html#stylemap
> >>
> >> So, if you have (in your select style) the 'label' set to '' -- an empty
> >> string -- I think this should solve your problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Is there a way to label a feature while it's vertices are visible and not
> >>> have the vertices labeled too?
> >>
> >> Vertices are features too, but I think the above solution should solve
> >> your problem, based on your description.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --
> >> Christopher Schmidt
> >> MetaCarta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Schmidt
> > MetaCarta
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-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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