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OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide Create, optimize, and deploy stunning cross-browser web maps with the OpenLayers JavaScript web mapping library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849514125
Length 372 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

OpenLayers 2.10
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with OpenLayers FREE CHAPTER 2. Squashing Bugs With Firebug 3. The 'Layers' in OpenLayers 4. Wrapping Our Heads Around Projections 5. Interacting with Third Party APIs 6. Taking Control of Controls 7. Styling Controls 8. Charting the Map Class 9. Using Vector Layers 10. Vector Layer Style Guide 11. Making Web Map Apps Index

OpenLayers.Control class


As we saw in the previous example, there are quite a few controls available to us. The Control class is similar in nature to the Layer class—there is a base Control class which all other control subclasses inherit from. Because most controls provide completely different functionality from one another, the base Control class does not contain a lot of properties.

The official, up to date documentation for this class can be found at http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Control-js.html.

OpenLayers.Control properties

Like properties of other classes, you can specify these properties when instantiating your control object. There are a few properties of the base OpenLayers.Control class, which are inherited by all other Control classes:

Name

Type

Description

autoActivate

{Boolean}

Set the control to activate when added to the map. Default value is false.

div

{HTML Element}

Many controls support the ability to be placed in a div outside the map. (This...

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