[OpenLayers-Users] registering a click event on a map

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> In OL 2.11 I used to do the following successfully
>
>     map.events.register(
>         "click",
>         map,
>         function(e) {
>             fancyFunction({evt: e, other_params: "foo"});
>         }
>     );
>
> The above has stopped working in Firefox (currently using FF v. 15.0.1) without any errors. It does work in Safari 6, but gives the following warning in the console.log
>
>> event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future.
>
> Suggestions to fix both problems would be welcomed with thanks.


I believe the correct way to register a click handler is something like:

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


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Richard Greenwood
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