Thank you! The got my app to display a message to the user! Yay! And you are about to have a customer!
On Nov 4, 12:14 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > furby wrote: > > Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way... it seems like a lot of > > shifting of code around to get a simple message to display in google > > maps. > > Not really. > > > Let me rephrase the question : Is there a simple way to get the two > > String parameters to display (That are sent to the OverlayItem class) > > when a point is clicked on? I would assume that google maps woudl have > > somethign built in (I am used to using maps in Javascript where it's > > pretty much just a onClick event handler...). > > You are using the simple way. You just have the wrong type for the first > parameter to the makeText() method. It would similarly fail if you tried > passing an integer for the first parameter, or a boolean. > > You can see an example of using a Toast from an ItemizedOverlay in one > of my book examples. I don't have these examples up on github just yet > (probably this weekend), so I can't directly link to it. For now, visit: > > http://commonsware.com/Android/ > > Scroll down and click on the Source Code link opposite the table of > contents. In the ZIP file, you will see Maps/NooYawk/. Look for the > onTap() implementation there. > > Since my ItemizedOverlay is an inner class of my MapActivity, I already > have access to a suitable Context to provide to makeText(). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
