OpenLayers Combines Rules and StyleMap/SelectFeature?

Question

I'm using GeoServer, OpenLayers and WFS features. For one layer, I managed to set either rules to display according to a field or SelectFeature with a styleMap to highlight features when the mouse is over.

I would like to combine both, that's to say display features according to its rules but also being able to highlight features when the mouse is over.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

Definitely possible. See this example: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/stylemap.html

 var myStyles = new OpenLayers.StyleMap({
            "default": new OpenLayers.Style({
                pointRadius: "${type}", // sized according to type attribute
                fillColor: "#ffcc66",
                strokeColor: "#ff9933",
                strokeWidth: 2,
                graphicZIndex: 1
            }),
            "select": new OpenLayers.Style({
                fillColor: "#66ccff",
                strokeColor: "#3399ff",
                graphicZIndex: 2
            })
        });

Single stylemap includes multiple styles

And here are the different intents that StyleMap supports

http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/StyleMap-js.html#OpenLayers.StyleMap

Answer 2

I found. Here is an example add lines 80-112, removing the two "if".

http://trac.geoext.org/browser/sandbox/cmoullet/ux/Redlining/examples/StylingExample.html?rev=1762