How to create annotations continuously?

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If you want to select annotation type in annotation toolbar and create several annotations continuously (without clicking to the annotation toolbar for each new annotation) in web annotation viewer, you need to do the following steps:

Subscribe to the "annotationBuildingFinished" event of the annotation visual tool.
In the handler of "annotationBuildingFinished" event you need to:
- Remove focus from created annotation.
- Create new annotation and start building of new annotation.

Here is JavaScript code that shows how to subscribe to the "annotationBuildingFinished" event of the annotation visual tool and create several annotations continuously in web annotation viewer:

JavaScript

// get the annotation visual tool of annotation viewer
var annotationVisualTool = annotationViewer.get_AnnotationVisualTool();
// subscribe to the "annotationBuildingFinished" event of the annotation visual tool
Vintasoft.Shared.subscribeToEvent(annotationVisualTool, "annotationBuildingFinished", function (event, annotation) {
    // remove focus from created annotation
    annotationVisualTool.set_FocusedAnnotationView(null);

    // new annotation
    var newAnnotation = null;
    // get the type of created annotation
    var annotationType = annotation.get_Type();
    // if created annotation is ellipse annotation
    if (annotationType == "EllipseAnnotation") {
        // create new ellipse annotation
        newAnnotation = new Vintasoft.Imaging.Annotation.UI.WebEllipseAnnotationViewJS();
    }
    // if new annotation exists
    if (newAnnotation != null) {
        // add new annotation to an image and build new annotation
        annotationVisualTool.addAndBuildAnnotation(newAnnotation);
    }
});

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