OpenLayers. Control. NavigationHistory

A navigation history control. This is a meta-control, that creates two dependent controls: previous and next. Call the trigger method on the previous and next controls to restore previous and next history states. The previous and next controls will become active when there are available states to restore and will become deactive when there are no states to restore.

Inherits from

OpenLayers.Control

Summary

OpenLayers. Control. NavigationHistory	A navigation history control.
Properties
previous	{OpenLayers.Control} A button type control whose trigger method restores the previous state managed by this control.
previousOptions	{Object} Set this property on the options argument of the constructor to set optional properties on the previous control.
next	{OpenLayers.Control} A button type control whose trigger method restores the next state managed by this control.
nextOptions	{Object} Set this property on the options argument of the constructor to set optional properties on the next control.
limit	{Integer} Optional limit on the number of history items to retain.
autoActivate	{Boolean} Activate the control when it is added to a map.
Constructor
OpenLayers. Control. NavigationHistory
Functions
destroy	Destroy the control.
nextTrigger	Restore the next state.
clear	Clear history.
activate	Activate the control.
deactivate	Deactivate the control.

Properties

{OpenLayers.Control} A button type control whose trigger method restores the previous state managed by this control.

previousOptions

{Object} Set this property on the options argument of the constructor to set optional properties on the previous control.

{OpenLayers.Control} A button type control whose trigger method restores the next state managed by this control.

nextOptions

{Object} Set this property on the options argument of the constructor to set optional properties on the next control.

limit

{Integer} Optional limit on the number of history items to retain. If null, there is no limit. Default is 50.

autoActivate

{Boolean} Activate the control when it is added to a map. Default is true.

Constructor

OpenLayers. Control. NavigationHistory

Parameters

options

{Object} An optional object whose properties will be used to extend the control.

Functions

destroy

destroy: function()

Destroy the control.

nextTrigger

nextTrigger: function()

Restore the next state. If no items are in the next history stack, this has no effect. The next history stack is populated as states are restored from the previous history stack.

Returns

{Object} Item representing state that was restored. Undefined if no items are in the next history stack.

clear

clear: function()

Clear history.

activate

activate: function()

Activate the control. This registers any listeners.

Returns

{Boolean} Control successfully activated.

deactivate

deactivate: function()

Deactivate the control. This unregisters any listeners.

Returns

{Boolean} Control successfully deactivated.