Hi Paul- That's the basic idea. You could also pass the map and marker objects into the infowindow, and have that poiClosed function be entirely inside the infowindow instance instead.
- pamela On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:26 AM, [Paul Ferrie] <[email protected]> wrote: > > ok after some some some some messing about today i have got an end > result. Though i hope someone has a better way of doing this as it > seems long winded to me. > > Set a variable to hold the maker outside of the function to remove it > var addMapPOI:* > > Function to add marker to the map > function addPOI(evt:Event) { > //Create new marker on the map > var marker:Marker = new Marker(map.getCenter(), new MarkerOptions > ({draggable: true})); > > addMapPOI=marker > marker.addEventListener(MapMouseEvent.DRAG_END, function > (event:Event):void { > var options:InfoWindowOptions = new InfoWindowOptions({ > customContent: new gForm(), > ..... > map.addEventListener("_CLOSED_",poiClosed); > map.addOverlay(marker); > > In the infoWindow i have a gForm attached to an external class > The close button fires the _CLOSED_ event > function closeForm(e:Event) { > parent.parent.parent.parent.parent.dispatchEvent(new Event > ("_CLOSED_")); > } > this in turn fires another function to close the window and remove the > marker > function poiClosed(evt) { > map.removeOverlay(addMapPOI); > map.closeInfoWindow(); > } > > is there a more elegant way? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
