[OpenLayers-Users] Unselecting multiple features

[Eric Lemoine]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Eric
Lemoine<eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Florian
> Diederichs<florian_diederichs at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have encountered a problem with the SelectFeature-Control. I wonder if
>> anybody has a workaround/patch, knows anything, or is seeing something I am
>> not. Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> The problems arises every time I use this function:
>>
>> select: new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(
>>                        kunden,
>>                        {
>>                                onSelect: onFeatureSelect,
>>                                onUnselect: onFeatureUnselect,
>>                                clickout: true, toggle: true,
>>                                multiple: true, hover: false,
>>                                box: true,
>>                                toggleKey: "ctrlKey",
>>                                multipleKey: "shiftKey"
>>                        }
>>                )
>>
>>
>> It can also be found at http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ - Open Layers
>> Select Feature Example.
>>
>>
>> When you first draw some points and then select the control allowing you to
>> select multiple features with a box, unselecting by clicking out isn't
>> working. (With "click out to unselect features" = true of course). Only when
>> you click on one of the features, the others get unselected. After that,
>> unselecting by clicking out works sort of.
>>
>> Because then, when you unselect by clicking out, only the feature that got
>> selected last is rendered as unselected, the others remain in their
>> graphical state of being selected. Although they aren't selected, at least
>> they are not in the selectedfeatures array of the layer.
>>
>> I wonder if anybody has a workaround/patch, knows anything, or if i'm just
>> doing something wrong. Help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Hi. I know what's going on: when selecting features by drawing a box
> the feature handler does not participate in the selection so it never
> triggers the clickout callback. I don't see any other way than faking
> the feature handler, see the patch attached to this email.

I created a ticket for this.
<http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2204>




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