Mike Williams wrote: > Wasn't it Garthan who wrote: > >> He wanted an auto close on mouse out unless I misread >> but then again first steps first. >> > > Close on mouseout of marker is easy. The hard part is keeping it open if > the mouse goes out of the marker and onto the info window, then closes > it on infowindow mouseout. basically you make the close action a delaid one... then if you have a mouseover event firing (on the infowindow) cancel it and send it again with another delay > Markus needs it to stay open because he's got > clickable content in the infowindow. > yup.... > It would be a bit awkward for the user to do it with the Google > infowindow anyway because it's so difficult to slide the mouse from the > marker, up the infowindow stem without doing a mouseout. > Yes I agree the idea is a bit awkward... > I think the best that can be done without an awful lot of hard work > would be to open the infowindow on mouseover and leave it open until > something else happens. That "something else" would include things like > map clicks and map mouseouts. > > that would be my recommendation or.. to right out the info in a place the user can scan easily like in a side bar. > I personally think that mouseover infowindow opening looks rather ugly > in Google Maps because of the auto pan. > right I agree...
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