[OpenLayers-Users] How to programmatically open/close Popup?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Alexandre,

OK, I got this to work. Thanks for the suggestions that got me moving in 
the right direction. So now my formAction looks like:

         function formAction(action) {
             alert(action);
             if (mytoolbar.selCtrl.openpopup) {
                 mytoolbar.selCtrl.onUnselect(
                     mytoolbar.selCtrl.openpopup.feature);
             }
         }

And I modified myToolbar to access the select control.

Now on to the next issue :)

Thanks again,
   -Steve

Alexandre Dube wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> You could manually trigger the "unselect" method of the ModifyFeature 
> control to unselect the currently selected feature, something like this :
> 
> map.controls[7].selectControl.unselect(map.layers[1].selectedFeatures[0]);
> 
> Instead of using the control and layer from their arrays, I would use 
> variable names (when creating them), like instead of doing 
> map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control....), I prefer doing var myVar= 
> new OL.ctrl.... and then map.addCtrl(myVar)
> 
> Also, instead of using onSelect and onUnselect methods of the 
> ModifyFeature control, try registering "select" and "unselect" events on 
> the layer, because the above solution won't work unless you do so.
> 
> Try that and tell me about it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alexandre
> 
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an OpenLayers.Popup.FramedCloud popup that contains a form for 
>> entering/editing a features attributes. The form has a save button 
>> with an onClick function attached that needs to save the data to the 
>> server then close the popup. Currently the button only issue an alert.
>>
>> How can I programmatically trigger the close from my onclick handler?
>>
>> You can see example here:
>> http://imaptools.com:8080/tilecache/test.html?zoom=17&lat=33.89595&lon=35.49935&layers=BT 
>>
>>
>> 1) load page, pan slightly to work around feature load bug
>> 2) click left most tool in tool bar
>> 3) click on green POI (you should get popup)
>>
>> I have only worked on this in FF, others might not work yet.
>>
>> I have looked over the event code and the popup code, but I'm not 
>> seeing a way to do this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    -Steve
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