yes thats right.. the control must be the first thing added to the map, at least this is how it works in my case -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Re-LoadingPanel-Waiting-for-Vector-WFS-loading-tp5013774p5015398.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.