[OpenLayers-Users] clicked on the map, but not a feature?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, May 20, 2011, ulao <S_K_U_N_X at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How can I tell once I clicked on a map ( layer ) but only if there is no
> shape/arker under my mouse. I see the .click handler passed evt, but no info
> about objects.

You can call getFeatureFromEvent on the vector layer:

var f = vectorLayer.getFeatureFromEvent(evt); // f is null if there's
no feature under the mouse

But note that this methode isn't part of the API, it is private to OpenLayers.

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