[OpenLayers-Users] Layer status

[Slawomir Messner]

Hi list,
is there a possibility to know if a layer is already finished with 
loading(all tiles and features are drawn)? I know about the loadend 
event, but I with small layers it's faster than I can register it. Or 
should I say, sometimes the user is faster with calling a function which 
need the layer to be finished.
I know I could register loadstart and loadend events and set an 
attribute for myself but I would like to know if there is already 
something similar in OL.
Regards
Slawomir