Hi Olav-
There is now a demo that shows how to create a rectangle using this
technique:
http://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/LabeledShapeIcons/LabeledShapeIcons.html

- pamela


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Olav-
> As Arothian suggested, it's probably better to use the native vector
> graphics capabilities in Flash than using external images (better
> performance). Here's some code that shows how to create a circle + label
> Sprite to use as the icon for a Marker. You could adapt this to draw a
> rectangle instead.
>
>       var sprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
>       sprite.graphics.lineStyle(2, 0x000000, 1);
>       sprite.graphics.beginFill(color, 1);
>       sprite.graphics.drawCircle(0,0,radius);
>
>       if (label != "") {
>         var labelMc = new TextField();
>         labelMc.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
>         labelMc.selectable = false;
>         labelMc.border = false;
>         labelMc.embedFonts = false;
>         labelMc.mouseEnabled = false;
>         labelMc.width = radius;
>         labelMc.height = radius;
>         labelMc.text = label;
>         labelMc.x = -(labelMc.width * 0.5);
>         labelMc.y = -(labelMc.height * 0.5);
>         sprite.addChild(labelMc);
>       }
>
> - pamela
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Olav <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, thanks for the reply. I need rectangles with room for location
>> names. Draggable and clickable labels in other words. MapIconMaker
>> works fine for this. Would be good if it also could auto-adjust the
>> width to fit the length of the text, but I should be able to solve
>> that I think.
>> >>
>>
>

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