Thanks for all the responses, lot's of valuable advice in there.
Haven't thought of using timeout before.

> Then you also hit the problem that the mouseover and mouseout events on
> the infowindow are not exposed. I don't know if any of the infowindow
> replacement extensions provide mouseover and mouseout events, but mine
> certainly don't.

I had a look at ExtInfoWindow and some other extensions; none seems to
have mouseout, mouseover exposed. Adding them to the infobox object in
ExtInfoWindow caused multiple mouseout, mouseover event calls every
time the mouse is moved between divs making up the info box.

> 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.

Too true ... in my opinion the infobox would need to be redesigned so
that the stem is very short (similar to VE) - also not only the stem
should keep the infowindow open but also the area around that the user
is likely to move over. Auto pan would need to be disabled for this
infobox behavior.

@Garthan - can I look at your code somewhere?

The longer I think about it the more it sounds like a lot of hard work
- too bad that it's a hard requirement.

Regards, Markus

On 28 Aug., 04:54, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wasn't it Lance Dyas who wrote:
>
> >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
>
> Then you also hit the problem that the mouseover and mouseout events on
> the infowindow are not exposed. I don't know if any of the infowindow
> replacement extensions provide mouseover and mouseout events, but mine
> certainly don't.
>
> --http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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