[OpenLayers-Users] How can I get a mobile browser to trap a click event like I can for a PC web browser?

[Richard Greenwood]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM, John Mitchell <mitchelljj98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using openlayers 2.11 and I am able to trap the click event (See below
> code) from a PC web browser but within an ipad2 the click event does not get
> trapped.
>
> I have tried using the map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation());
> and map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.TouchNavigation()); and for both
> cases I get the same result described above.
>
> How can I get a mobile browser to trap a click event like I can for a PC web
> browser?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>             map.events.register('click', map, function (e) {
>                 updateMapState();
>                     var xys = map.getLonLatFromViewPortPx(e.xy);
>                     var easting = xys.lon;
>                     var northing = xys.lat;
>                     var point = new OpenLayers.LonLat(easting,northing);
>                     getFeatureInfoForLonLat(point);
>                     Event.stop(e);
>             });
>


Use the OpenLayers.Control.Click something like the following:

var click = new OpenLayers.Control.Click( {
    trigger: function(e) {
       // do your thing
    }
});
map.addControl(click);
click.activate();


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Richard Greenwood
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