/#! James McKinney • Montreal, QC Canada 45.58233 -73.55415 • james@slashpoundbang.com

In OpenLayers, double-clicking on the map, by default, zooms in. If you add features (OpenLayers.Feature.Vector) to a layer (OpenLayers.Layer.Vector), double-clicking on the features will not zoom in. In order to re-enable double-click zoom in this case, you’ll need to add a custom control to the map.

var DblclickFeature = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Control, {
  initialize: function (layer, options) {
    OpenLayers.Control.prototype.initialize.apply(this, [ options ]);
    this.handler = new OpenLayers.Handler.Feature(this, layer, {
      dblclick: this.dblclick
    });
  }
});

So far, we’ve defined a control class that handles double-clicks on features. Let’s instantiate the control and define its double-click handler (map is your instance of OpenLayers.Map and vectorLayer is your instance of OpenLayers.Layer.Vector):

var dblclick = new DblclickFeature(vectorLayer, {
  dblclick: function (event) {
    map.zoomIn();
  }
});

Lastly, let’s add it to the map and activate it:

map.addControl(dblclick);
dblclick.activate();