Whoops, never mind. I found where marker.tooltip = '<div class="tooltip"><nobr>'+name+'<\/nobr><\/div>'; was calling a variable from the XML file that didn't exist.
Sorry.... Mike -- On Jan 21, 2:19 pm, gmallinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies Larry and Mike. > > Mike, I have followed your code athttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/tooltips4.htm > and modified it to use my XML file. > The results are athttp://test.fs.cornell.edu/maps/ttSidebar_Test.htm > > As you can see, the tooltips are not producing on rollover as they do > in your example. Clicking on the marker or the item in the sidebar > will open the balloon though. > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > > On Jan 19, 11:54 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wasn't it [email protected] who wrote: > > > >> 2. although the markers are not showing on the page, I would still > > >> like there to be a hot spot for that marker if I were to hover over it > > >> on the map. If you hover over it it should produce the tool tip. If > > >> you were to click on it the marker would appear and the info balloon > > >> would appear. > > > >That implies that you probably want to either: > > >1. do the processing on the server (you did say you have LOTS of > > >markers) > > >or > > >2. use an "invisible" marker, on mouseover use setIcon to change to a > > >visible one. > > > >If you have LOTS of markers, you probably want to do most of the > > >processing server side, otherwise the preformance of the map will be > > >vary sluggish, particularly with IE. > > > The server-side idea would make sense for clicks, but I can't see it > > making sense for mouseovers. You'd have to send the mouse position to > > the server continuously as the user moves the mouse across the map. As > > there are LOTS of markers, there'd be lots of tooltips popping up a few > > tenths of a second behind the mouse movement. > > > One possibility, but not easy, is to do something like what Google do > > with GLayers: > > > Use square markers > > > As the map pans or zooms, the client sends the viewport position to a > > hotspot server, which returns details of the locations of the hotspots, > > marker id and tooltip text for a few hundred of the most important > > markers that are in the viewport. > > > As the mouse moves over the map, read the mouse position and scan > > through the hotspot list and display the tooltip. You won't be able to > > use {title} to display the tooltip, because there's nothing actually > > there to attach the {title} to, so you'll have to do something like > > this:http://econym.org.uk/gmap/tooltips4.htm > > > I said it wasn't going to be easy. > > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
