Let user manually show/hide spinner

[nenadvicentic]

I have use case where I want to show spinner only during loading of application data on the map. I am not concerned with progress of tiles and other layers loading, since data on those layers is not crucial to the user.

I achieved this with a bit of hacking, using "private" methods _showIndicator and _hideIndicator and unregistering event listeners immediately after control is added to the map:

    // Initialization logic
    this._loadingControl = L.Control.loading({ separate: true, delayIndicator: 300 });
    this._map.addControl(this._loadingControl);
    // remove layer and basemap event listeners, we want only our logic to show spinner.
    this._loadingControl.onRemove(this._map); 

    private async loadMyData(filter) {
        this._loadingControl._showIndicator();

        try {
            // Data loading logic here
        } finally {
            this._loadingControl._hideIndicator();
        }
    }

It would be nice to have official support for this use case.

[ebrelsford]

Sure, I could be open to an option to disable the spinner on base tiles if someone wanted to create a pull request.

[nenadvicentic]

I can make a pull request (in a week or two), but can you elaborate a bit how it should be done?

1. If option to disable the spinner reacting on layer events is true, you skip calling this._addLayerListeners(map); in onAdd function? Still calling this._addMapListeners(map);?

2. How would showing/hidding be activated in that case? Still with using dataloading and dataload events on the map? For example map.fireEvent('dataloading')?