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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ----------------------------
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>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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