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I'm trying to create functionality in OpenLayers 3 that allows me to delete a vertex from a feature that is currently selected using the modify interaction.

I've managed to see that there is a 'deleteCondition' parameter set on the modify interaction when it is created, and that this needs to return an ol.events.condition object. At present I can see from this example (http://openlayers.org/en/master/examples/draw-and-modify-features.html) that is it possible to delete a vertex by pressing SHIFT and mouse click at the same time, however this then creates a new point which seems counter-intuitive to me. If you are deleting a vertex why would you want to create a new vertex in exactly the same place? I may have missed something here though.

So the question is how can I use these ol.events.condition objects to make it so that if the user clicks a specific key on the keyboard the highlighted vertex is deleted?

My initial thoughts were to have something like this:

var modifyInteraction = new ol.interaction.Modify({ features: selectInteraction.getFeatures(), deleteCondition: function(event) { var key = event.originalEvent.keycode || event.originalEvent.charCode; if(key == 46) { return ol.events.condition.always(event); } else { return ol.events.condition.never(event); } } });

But this produces some very strange results...

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  • use shift +mouse click delete vertices in the official example. Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 15:59
  • I notice that the behaviour has changed between v3.4.x and v3.5.x. Previously it would just delete the vertex and ignore the draw interaction (openlayers.org/en/v3.4.0/examples/draw-and-modify-features.html). If you disable the draw interaction then it works, but adding a condition to the draw interaction to try and counter the behaviour didn't work for me jsfiddle.net/8d3ygyqt Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 17:30
  • Ah yes you are right, the version 3.4.x seems to work how I would envisage it. Perhaps it is a bug in 3.5.x then? Commented Jun 2, 2015 at 7:30
  • I'd say so. There is nothing obvious in the release notes to indicate this change is intentional (github.com/openlayers/ol3/releases/tag/v3.5.0), and I've at least thought adding a condition in the draw interaction (like in my demo above) should work. github.com/openlayers/ol3/issues/new (I can raise it if you like?) Commented Jun 2, 2015 at 8:25
  • Yes ok if you could raise it that would be great, thank you. Commented Jun 2, 2015 at 8:31

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I think there is a problem with freehandCondition in Draw interaction, which is ShiftKeyOnly by default. When I changed it to ol.events.condition.never I can delete vertex without creating new feature. This solution deactivates freehand drawing. Example:

draw = new ol.interaction.Draw({ features:features, type: ('Polygon'), freehandCondition: function(event){ return ol.events.condition.never(event); }
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