[OpenLayers-Users] It is possible to give priority to controls??

[Eric Lemoine]

On Sunday, April 18, 2010, fedesan <fedesanchez888 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I'm having problems with this issue:
>
> I have two OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature activated.
> The first one is for drawing a box and the second one only allows hovering
> so i can show/hide a pop-up
> when i put the mouse over the features selected with the first control.
>
> Everything works fine until here, but mi problem occurs when i try to make a
> new selection: If i draw a box on an area where there are selected features
> from the the previous selection mi box gets destroyed by the creation of a
> pop-up.
> If i draw the box really quickly the pop-ups dont have enought time to show
> up , but that is not what i'm loocking for.
>
> So i was wondering if there is a way to no show pop-ups when i'm drawing a
> box.
>
> This is some of the code:
>
>      selectCtrl = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(layer,
>         {box:true, clickout:true,toggle:true,onSelect:
> function(){hover.activate();},onUnselect: function(){hover.deactivate();}
>         });
>      map.addControl(selectCtrl);
>      selectCtrl.activate();
>
> hover = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(layer,{hover:true});
>      map.addControl(hover);
>          hover.events.register("featurehighlighted", this, function(e)
> {createPopup(e.feature)});
>      hover.events.register("featureunhighlighted", this, function(e) {
>                popup.close();
>             });

I'm not sure I understand your problem. Have you tried
highlightOnly:true in the options of the hover control?

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