Well the idea is when you have neared the conclusion of the sequence you will indeed pause if you dont know what to do...
Where would I insert a title on the elements in the renderers? hopefully a little higher in the code than that. Tim Schaub-3 wrote: > > Hey- > > Lance Dyas wrote: >> Double clicking to end a polygon when drawing it while easy .. is not >> totally obvious ... if I could give a title to the elements as they are >> being drawn so that users who pause wondering what to do next could get >> a message that might solve the issue in a very clean fashion... anyone >> have a clue how to do this? > > We don't currently provide a "tooltip" ui component. There are plenty > of ui libs that do. We occasionally rely on default browser behavior > with regard to the title attribute of element nodes (which sometimes > results in the display of a "tooltip"). > > I just confirmed that in Firefox, if you set the title on a path or > circle element and get a tooltip when you hover over it. Don't think > this would do the trick for informing the user to double-click to end > drawing, as they probably aren't stopping long enough to get the > tooltip. In any case, you'll have to do something custom at this point. > >> >> I also want to customize the nodes (really just draw smaller squares >> instead of circles for the nodes) > > See http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/measure.html > > You can use any well-known name for a point (where well-known is > determined by the SLD spec). > > Note that setting the style for a sketch handler is harder than it > should be - we should be using the temporary rendering intent of the > target layer's style map (see http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1634). > In the case of the measure control, there is no target layer - so you'd > still need to set the style as shown in the above example. > > You'll have to adapt the code for your use case. > >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@openlayers.org >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > -- > Tim Schaub > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tool-tip-on-drawing-polygon-tp20501939p20623266.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users