Hey Bryan- Ok, I see. You can file the feature request for the zero ControlPosition here: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/
- pamela On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Bryan Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Pamela - The control is a search circle type control. Basically the user > drags out a circle to define a radius they want to search for data. The > control itself (the circle, with the radius, etc) is on the map, but it is > not anchored to any part of the map. To "turn on" searching you must call a > method on the control rather than pushing a button on the map. Does that > make sense? It seemed best to still override control base as it is actually > controlling the map. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Bryan- >> >> What was your use case for a control that had no visible position on the >> map? >> >> - pamela >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Bryan Dunbar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Ok, so I finally figured this out. It had nothing to do with the >> > markers, it >> > had everything to do with a custom control I written for the map. My >> > custom >> > control has no visual representation on the map, so I was passing null >> > to >> > the constructor of ControlBase for the control position. Apparently this >> > is >> > bad idea as it's throwing a null obj reference in teh getControlRect >> > method. >> > >> > It would be nice if the API had a ControlPosition.NONE or something >> > similar >> > to represent this type of control. >> > >> > Bryan >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:58 AM, bryandunbar <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Anybody got any ideas on this? >> >> >> >> On Mar 2, 11:26 pm, bryandunbar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > All - I have a main application mxml that defines a map. I then have >> >> > some sub-components that act on that map. Currently for ease of >> >> > coding >> >> > I'm passing a reference to the map to the child component. One of >> >> > the >> >> > child components creates a series of marker overlays but when I call >> >> > openInfoWindow on one of the markers I get the following error: >> >> > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null >> >> > object reference. >> >> > at com.google.maps.core::MapImpl/getControlRect() >> >> > at >> >> > com.google.maps.core::MapImpl/calcOffsetForViewportRegion() >> >> > at com.google.maps.core::MapImpl/panToViewportRegion() >> >> > at com.google.maps.core::MapImpl/openInfoWindow() >> >> > at com.google.maps.overlays::Marker/openInfoWindow() >> >> > at com.google.maps.wrappers::IMarkerWrapper/openInfoWindow() >> >> > at <anonymous>()[C:\Development\flex\MapsDemo\src\comp >> >> > \PolicySearch.mxml:146] >> >> > at <anonymous>() >> >> > at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() >> >> > at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() >> >> > >> >> > Any thoughts? >> >> > Thanks >> >> > Bryan >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------- >> "if you can imagine it, you can do it" >> http://imagine-it.org >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" 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/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
