How to abort a layer event in Openlayers

Question

I have a problem ( How to stop features to redraw unwillingly in OpenLayers ) that might be solved by aborting the beforefeatureremoved or beforefeaturesremoved event.

What I would like to to is to stop the layer from refreshing (removing and the adding again) features from a vector layer. If I for example make a javscript error in those methods the features isn't removed or refreshed. But causing a javascripts error causes other issues so I hope that there is a controlled way of doing this in Openlayers

I have tried the

layer.events.on({
   'beforefeatureremoved':function(evt){
       OpenLayers.Event.stop(evt);
    }
});

But it doesnt seem to do anything, Im I

Br Mike

Answer 1

Unfortunately the beforefeatureremoved and beforefeaturesremoved events will not prevent features from being removed when returning false from a listener - although the name would suggest such behavior.