Question

I’m using OpenLayers and I’m having a problem with select feature functionality:

When there is an EditingToolbar added to the map, the SelectFeature control isn’t working properly. It doesn’t select the feature, it can only highlight it.

I guess that’s because the click of the DrawFeature Control and the SelectFeature Control interfere.

The only solution I managed to come up with is to deactivate the EditingToolbar.

This is the eaxmple that I use to find a solution to the problem. I simply add an EditingToolbar to the map from my console and try to debug from there:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/highlight-feature.html

How can I solve this problem without deactivating the EditingToolbar?

Thank you for your time and kind concern.

Answer 1

The way I figured out how to do it is to do:

editing_toolbar.controls[2].deactivate();

Now I can select the features that I need.

Of course, editing_toolbar is the reference to the EditingToolbar object and the control is chosen at random; in reality you need to check all controls and find the one that is active, and then deactivate it.