Hi Antonis-
What if you do { icon: new customMarker() } ?
Generally, if the default marker is displayed, that means the API
doesn't understand what you passed into icon.
- pamela
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, antonis<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Pamela and thank you for your response!
>
> Unfortunately it did not work though. As i mentioned i am developing
> in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and i have imported my custom marker
> in the library so i supposed it already was embeded in my swf. Anyway
> since you told me i had to embed it and after going through the code
> you suggested i added
>
>
> [Embed(source="/arrow.png")] var customMarker:Class;
> var customIcons:Object =
> {"myMarker": customMarker};
>
> And then assign
>
> icon : customIcons["myMarker"]
>
> in MarkerOptions, but the API "ignore" the custom icon and instead
> show the default marker. I do not get any errors though, just the
> default marker instead of the one i want!
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Antonis
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 24, 4:51 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Antonis-
>>
>> You need to embed that image, you can't just pass in a string. This
>> example shows how to do
>> that:http://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/XmlParsingD...
>>
>> You can right click to view the source on that.
>>
>> - pamela
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:50 AM, antonis<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > I am new in programming on google maps and i would really appreciate
>> > your help!
>>
>> > I have been trying to add a custom marker on my map but have not
>> > managed to do it. Have searched around a lot on forums and other sites
>> > but with no luck.
>>
>> > I develop in Flash CS3 and i try to use a file called arrow.png which
>> > is in the same folder as my application and want to position it
>> > somewhere close to the bottom right corner of my map. To be sure that
>> > i use a correct png file i downloaded one that purpose for this. It is
>> > a 39 x 34, 757bytes .png icon.
>>
>> > I attach my code below.
>>
>> > Thank you very much in advance. I will be looking forward to some
>> > assistance.
>>
>> > //----- MY CODE -------------
>>
>> > import com.google.maps.LatLng;
>> > import com.google.maps.LatLngBounds;
>> > import com.google.maps.Map;
>> > import com.google.maps.MapEvent;
>> > import com.google.maps.MapType;
>> > import com.google.maps.MapOptions;
>> > import com.google.maps.overlays.Marker;
>> > import com.google.maps.overlays.MarkerOptions;
>> > import com.google.maps.MapMouseEvent;
>>
>> > var map:Map = new Map();
>> > map.setSize(new Point(650, 750));
>> > map.x = 100;
>> > map.y = 0;
>> > map.addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_READY, onMapReady);
>> > map.addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_PREINITIALIZE, onMapPreinitialize);
>> > this.addChild(map);
>>
>> > function onMapPreinitialize(event:Event):void {
>> > var myMapOptions:MapOptions = new MapOptions();
>>
>> > myMapOptions.zoom = 15;
>> > myMapOptions.center = new LatLng(37.971473, 23.726701);
>> > myMapOptions.mapType = MapType.NORMAL_MAP_TYPE;
>> > this.map.setInitOptions(myMapOptions);
>> > }
>>
>> > function onMapReady(event:Event):void {
>>
>> > //Add Dragable Marker
>> > //Put the marker somwhere close to the bottom right corner
>> > var bounds:LatLngBounds = map.getLatLngBounds();
>> > var southWest:LatLng = bounds.getSouthWest();
>> > var northEast:LatLng = bounds.getNorthEast();
>> > var lngSpan:Number = northEast.lng() - southWest.lng();
>> > var latSpan:Number = northEast.lat() - southWest.lat();
>>
>> > latlng = new LatLng(southWest.lat()+latSpan/20,northEast.lng()-
>> > lngSpan/10);
>>
>> > var marker:Marker = new Marker(latlng, new MarkerOptions({
>>
>> > draggable: true,
>> > tooltip: "Drag this marker",
>> > icon : "arrow.png"
>> > }));
>>
>> > map.addOverlay(marker);
>> > trace(marker.getLatLng());
>>
>> > marker.addEventListener(MapMouseEvent.DRAG_START, function
>> > (event:Event):void {
>> > trace(marker.getLatLng());
>> > });
>> > marker.addEventListener(MapMouseEvent.DRAG_END, function
>> > (event:Event):void {
>> > trace(marker.getLatLng());
>> > });
>>
>> > }
> >
>
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