[OpenLayers-Users] Register multiple map layers for same event... how???

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, plen <peteralen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> Thanks for the response.  You have answered some of my questions in the past
> and I appreciate it.  As for this question, I did find the SelectFeature
> control you mentioned and was able to successfully add more than one
> OpenLayers.Layer.Vector layer to the control and was able to register a
> "featureselected" event via:
>
> getFeaturesLayer1().events.register("featureselected", getFeaturesLayer1(),
> fclick);
>
> All works fine.  I orginally thought, however, that my real problem would be
> solved in finding this solution, but it is not.  What I really need is to be
> able to share events amoung two different types of layers.  For example, I
> need to have an OpenLayers.Layer.Vector and an OpenLayers.Layer.Markers
> share the same event (rather than two OpenLayers.Layer.Vector share the same
> event).  Looking at the API for the SelectFeature control, it seems to
> indicate that only OpenLayers.Layer.Vector layers can be used.  Is this true
> or is there a way to have two different types of layers share the same
> event?

the select feature control works with vector layers only. Anyway, it
is now recommended to use Layer.Vector for markers as well, through
the externalGraphic style property.

Sorry if I misunderstood your question.

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