[Users] How to share actions between multiple layers?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Sunday, May 9, 2010, Adam Ratcliffe <adam at prema.co.nz> wrote:
> Yes I'm using the DrawFeature and ModifyFeature controls.  Only 1 layer needs to be edited at a time so that's fine.
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> What I'm unsure about is how to deal with the one-to-one relationship between a GeoExt.Action, an OpenLayers.Control and the layer referenced by the control.  I was thinking that I'd probably need to do something like create a set of action instances for each layer and when a layer is selected in the map legend remove the set of existing toolbar layer actions and add the actions for the selected layer.
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> Does this sound like a reasonable approach or is there a better way?

Either that or create a new set of actions each time a layer is selected.

(Introducing a setControl method in GeoExt.Action may make sense.)

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