Hey Chris-

I modified the Tooltip example that I have to add a zoom control and
map type control, and the normal map type went well beyond 17 there.
Does it only happen when you both subclass the Map and specify the
FLOAT pane, perhaps?

- pamela

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, TinyGrasshopper<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah ha - ok worked out what it was.
>
> I had based our Text markers on the Tooltip Overlay example
> http://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/TooltipOverlayDemo/TooltipOverlayDemo.html
>
> The example places the tooltips into PANE_FLOAT which i was doing as
> well however it seems that, if you put overlays into that layer, then
> zoom breaks. I changed our markers to go on the PANE_MARKER layer and
> it works fine now.
>
> Not sure if this is a constant problem or just if you try to put
> things into that pane during map initialization or what.
>
> Should i file this as a bug?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> On Sep 7, 9:40 am, TinyGrasshopper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mmm, definitely something to do with our subclassing of the Map class
>> - i replaced OurMap with Map in the above code and it works fine.
>>
>> On Sep 7, 9:23 am, TinyGrasshopper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi Pamela,
>>
>> > No custom map types or TileLayerOverlays alas. Our customizations are:
>>
>> > - Subclass the map (makes it cleaner to do the other customizations)
>> > - Attach pretty much every listener to the map (although i've turned
>> > these off with no effect)
>> > - Subclass the Marker class to add our own information to it.
>> > - Wrapped the polyline class to add our own information (although the
>> > map still sees regular polylines)
>> > - Added a bunch of custom overlays (all marker-style overlays tho, no
>> > tile ones - problem still occurs when none of these are on the map).
>> > - We do a lot of communication via ExternalInterface
>> > - We use javascript in the containing page to hijack the mouse right
>> > click events
>> > - We run a timer event every 100 milliseconds that does
>> > ExternalInterface calls however it's turned off while zooming/panning
>> > and i've disabled it completely and still had the problem.
>> > - <probably some others i cant think of atm>
>>
>> > I've turned most of these off tho and still have the problem. I think
>> > it must be something to do with how we either load the map control or
>> > our subclassing of the map control.
>>
>> > I cant post the real code, but we do something like this to load the
>> > map:
>>
>> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
>> > layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%" initialize="init(event)">
>> >         <mx:HBox borderStyle="none" paddingTop="0" paddingBottom="0"
>> > paddingLeft="0" paddingRight="0" width="100%" height="100%">
>> >                 <mx:UIComponent id="mapContainer"
>> >                         initialize="startMap(event)"
>> >                         resize="resizeMap(event)"
>> >                         width="100%" height="100%"/>
>> >         </mx:HBox>
>> >         <mx:Script>
>> > ...
>> >         private var map:OurMap;
>>
>> >         public function startMap(event:Event):void {
>> >                 map = new OurMap();
>> >                 mapContainer.addChild(map);
>> >         }
>>
>> >         public function resizeMap(event:Event):void {
>> >                 map.setSize(new Point(mapContainer.width, 
>> > mapContainer.height));
>> >         }
>>
>> >     ]]>
>> >         </mx:Script>
>> > </mx:Application>
>>
>> > We dont override any google methods on the map but we do add an aweful
>> > lot of our own methods and variables.
>>
>> > I tried rolling back through several api versions back to 1.7a and all
>> > had the same problem
>>
>> > I rolled forward to 1.16 (we're currently using 1.9a) and still have
>> > the same problem.
>>
>> > We're running the swf file locally from a local .html file which i
>> > thought might have been the problem but i've tried some of the
>> > examples from the gallery locally and none of them have the problem.
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Chris
>>
>> > On Sep 6, 4:22 pm, "pamela fox (Google employee)"
>>
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Hey Chris-
>>
>> > > What customizations have you done? Have you added any custom map types
>> > > or TileLayerOverlays?
>> > > I'm pretty sure that those are the only customizations that would
>> > > affect that.
>>
>> > > Does it happen with the previous SWC releases? You can grab them 
>> > > here:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/MapsAPIforFlashChangelog
>>
>> > > - pamela
>>
>> > > On Sep 3, 1:04 pm, TinyGrasshopper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > The highest level i'm getting is 17.
>>
>> > > > I tried using the limited zoom code 
>> > > > fromhttp://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/LimitedZoom...
>> > > > to increase the zoom level that i could see but with no success.
>>
>> > > > On Sep 3, 12:37 pm, TinyGrasshopper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > > Also weird is that the problem only occurs in NORMAL_MAP_TYPE, in
>> > > > > hybrid, satellite and physical, the zoom the extra zoom levels are
>> > > > > available.
>>
>> > > > > On Sep 3, 12:06 pm, TinyGrasshopper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > > > Hi Everyone,
>>
>> > > > > > I've run into a problem where, for some unknown reason, our map 
>> > > > > > wont
>> > > > > > let you zoom in past a certain point (somewhere around zoom level 
>> > > > > > 18).
>> > > > > > I've got two maps side by side, one with all my customizations on 
>> > > > > > it
>> > > > > > and the other just a bare embedded map and the customized one stops
>> > > > > > well before the un-customized one.
>>
>> > > > > > I've started hacking out bits of customization to try and determine
>> > > > > > what's causing it but, even with pretty much everything gone, it's
>> > > > > > still the same.
>>
>> > > > > > Bizarrely, I put the Zoom Control on to both maps and i can see 
>> > > > > > that
>> > > > > > there are more levels on the zoom slider on the uncustomized map 
>> > > > > > than
>> > > > > > on the customized map at the same location.
>>
>> > > > > > I'm stumped :(
>>
>> > > > > > Has anyone run into this type of problem before? Any hints on what
>> > > > > > might be causing it?
>>
>> > > > > > Thanks for any help,
>> > > > > > Chris
> >
>

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