Thanks Pam. While it's gratifying to know that my workaround is not all that
bad, I would be lying if I said I didn't expect you to come up with an
alternative :-)
Well, thanks anyway.
-M
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2008/11/14 pamela (Google Employee) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hey Jamie-
> Sorry for not replying. As far as I'm aware, your workaround is the best
> approximation to what you want to achieve.
>
> - pamela
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:59 AM, JamieJag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Pam,
>>
>> Is there some shortcut to attach a menu (as opposed to a right-click
>> driven context menu) on a marker? For example, I'd like to show users
>> several options when they click on a marker, selecting one of which
>> would open the infowindow. I have reasons to do it on a click and not
>> a right-click. As of now, since the menu cannot be attached directly
>> to a marker, I have this following work-around:
>>
>> marker.addEventListener(MapMouseEvent.CLICK,
>> function(e:MapMouseEvent):void {
>> currentMarker = e.target as Marker; // currentMarker
>> declared above
>> as "var currentMarker:Marker;"
>> var pnt:Point =
>> map.fromLatLngToViewport(currentMarker.getLatLng());
>> showMenu(currentMarker, pnt.x + 20, pnt.y + 10);
>> });
>> where showMenu is defined as:
>>
>> private function showMenu(whichMarker:Marker, x:Number,
>> y:Number):void{
>> var menu:Menu = Menu.createMenu(null, MenuData, false);
>> menu.labelField = "@label";
>> menu.addEventListener(MenuEvent.ITEM_CLICK, handleMenuItemClick);
>> menu.show(x,y);
>> }
>> (MenuData is my own XML)
>>
>> and
>>
>> private function handleMenuItemClick(event:MenuEvent):void
>> {
>> if (event.label.toLowerCase() == "show more info")
>> {
>> var myHTML:String = "abcd" + "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" + "\nabcd"
>> +
>> "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" +
>> "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" + "\nabcd" ;
>> var infoWindowOptions:InfoWindowOptions = new
>> InfoWindowOptions({content:myHTML});
>> var height:Number = Number(infoWindowOptions.height);
>> currentMarker.openInfoWindow(infoWindowOptions);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Note that I'm having to use a "global" variable called currentMarker
>> since I could only attach a map's container to the menu, and not the
>> marker itself. If the marker itself could be attached to the menu,
>> then MenuEvent could give me the marker in event.target.
>>
>> I hope I have expressed myself clearly. If not :-(, please reply and
>> I'll clarify further.
>>
>> -M
>>
>> On Oct 7, 10:30 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > Heya-
>> >
>> > I put together a demo to show this, as I know it may seem a bit tricky:
>> >
>> > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/demogallery.html.
>> ..
>> >
>> > - pamela
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:26 PM, pamela (Google Employee)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > Hi folks-
>> >
>> > > It is currently possible to add to the context menu of the map by
>> > > setting the contextMenu property of the map component. I'm pasting
>> > > some code which just adds two items to the menu:
>> > > var _Menu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
>> >
>> > > var _MenuItem1:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem('Menu 1');;
>> > > var _MenuItem2:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem('Menu 2');;
>> >
>> > > _Menu.customItems.push(_MenuItem1);
>> > > _Menu.customItems.push(_MenuItem2);
>> >
>> > > this.map.contextMenu = _Menu;
>> >
>> > > You could assign listeners to those items to do stuff like add markers
>> > > or set the view of the map.
>> >
>> > > Let me know what questions you still have.
>> >
>> > > - pamela
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Megharaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Hi,
>> >
>> > >> Even am also have the same requirement.
>> >
>> > >> So i have created context menu in flex then i will click on the map
>> to
>> > >> get the geocode.Finally i created marker on that place.
>> >
>> > >> Is it possible to create the marker by right clicking on the map.
>> >
>> > >> Thanks,
>> > >> Megharaja S.H.
>> >
>> > >> On Oct 6, 5:52 pm, Jash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >>> Hi
>> >
>> > >>> Is there anyway that i can get Flex context menu to be shown on
>> right
>> > >>> click on marker or Map.
>> > >>> When i saw the API there seems to be no event for MouseRightClick.
>> Can
>> > >>> this feature be added .There are many occassions when one would like
>> > >>> to have a rightclick working on marker or map.
>> >
>> > >>> Currently i have added 2 event listeners for markers. One for click
>> > >>> event and other for Double Click.
>> > >>> When i do a click i show infowindow and on double click showin a
>> menu.
>> > >>> But when i double click what happens is the infowindow alos gets
>> open
>> > >>> and the menu also gets open.
>> >
>> > >>> How do we come over this. Also the menu stays open unless i don't
>> > >>> click any item inside it, What if user wants to click elsewhere on
>> map
>> > >>> and the menu should close.
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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