[OpenLayers-Users] Capturing mouse events

[Mike Leahy]

That does work for right-click, although it's not as tidy.  What confuses me 
is that it would seem that based on the documentation that there are specific 
functions meant for handling these events in the click handler class:  
http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Handler/Click-js.html

Am I misinterpreting that?


On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:07:33 Phil Scadden wrote:

> Not sure how OpenLayers handles it, but fir html, how  about
> onContextMenu event? For mouse handling, I am pretty sure you can only
> reliably pick right button in onMousedown event
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> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 18:58:39 Mike Leahy wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I'm taking a look at OpenLayers again, and I'm just trying to figure out
> > how to effectively capture various mouse events.  Based on the examples
> > provided, it's fairly straightforward to get click and double-click
> > events.  But I don't seem to be able to figure out how to handle the
> > right click event, or
> > mouseup/mousedown events.
> > 
> > I've tried cobbling together a sample...and although I seem to be able to
> > make something happen with mouseup and mousedown, these end up appearing
> > as 'click' events.  As for a right-click event, I can't seem to capture
> > that at all.  I'm sure this can be done, but I just don't understand the
> > OpenLayers classes well enough to implement it.  Can someone look at the
> > attached html file and identify where I'm going wrong?  If you drop it
> > into the examples of the dev version of OpenLayers, it should work (at
> > least in FireFox), and it'll write messages into a Firebug console.
> > 
> > Mike
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