On Oct 6, 8:08 pm, "John Balison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you so much for that Larry. I found an example in Mike's tutorial > that used GEvent.trigger for a sidebar thar worked great. > > Now the last thing I need to do is this: The javascript is called > myclick(i), where (i) counts up from 0 to the number of markers-1. I want > the function to be: myclick(hotelname), where hotelname is one of the > variables in the array. I know that the answer must be in this Javascript > for Dummies book, but it is escaping me. >
javascript arrays can be thought of as associative arrays. You can do: gmarkers["Hotel Del"] -- Larry > > The current page is here:http://www.hawaii-hotel-guide.us/hotels/maui > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Google Maps API" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 1:55 AM > Subject: Re: Want to openInfoWindow on mouseover (not on marker) > > On Oct 5, 6:37 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > > I have a site where I am using PHP/MySQL to create an xml file with > > point data. Then I load the xml file using GDownloadURL. I followed > > the example in the article by Pamela Fox, "Using PHP/MySQL with Google > > Maps". It's a work in progress, but works great so far. > > > Here is a link to the page:http://www.hawaii-hotel-guide.us/hotels/maui > > > and this is the php code that generates it: > > >http://www.hawaii-hotel-guide.us/hotels/maui_php.txt > > > Now, I am trying to figure out how to create a simple function (or > > call the existing one) that will open the infoWindow on mouseover from > > somewhere else on the page, not on the map. Like: <a href="" > > onmouseover"openInfoWindow(thisPoint)".....Basically, I want to have > > the info window open at a marker on the map when someone mouses over > > the corresponding hotel name in the table below. > > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/events.html#DOM_Events > Add a mouseover listener to the DOM element. If your markers are set > up with "click" listeners, it can just do a GEvent.trigger to trigger > a click on the appropriate marker (assuming you have a globally > available reference). > > > I'm a javascript rookie (It took me about 60 hours to get this far!). > > If there is an example of this out there i would really appreciate > > some direction. > > > Also, the page centers the map on a specific point. Is there an > > example of how to have the map center itself, based on where the > > points are? I could do this by calculating the median of the lat and > > lon, but if there is a map function available, I'd rather use that. > > See Mike Williams' tutorial: > Part 14 Fitting the map zoom to the datahttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/basic14.htm > > -- Larry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
