On Apr 9, 7:01 am, marcoow <[email protected]> wrote:
> The solution turned out to be quite simple: just set the .transparent
> property for the GIcon as well, otherwise the default "transparent"
> image (which is not really transparent) will be over the marker's
> image, thus hiding the image....

That means that your custom GIcon is set up incorrectly.
The .transparant image should be transparent.
or at least "1% opacity"
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GIcon.transparent

  -- Larry

>
> On 8 Apr., 19:41, marcoow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hm, I got the CSS from psd2html.com - will have to crawl through it ;(
>
> > Thanks for your help!
>
> > On 8 Apr., 19:24, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Apr 8, 10:11 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > On Apr 8, 9:41 am, marcoow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Yes, that's just the usual error when you use a key that's not
> > > > > registered for the domain. However, that doesn't really mean anything
> > > > > usually. I'm pretty sure that's not causing the error. If Google Maps
> > > > > intentionally fails if no valid key is used, it wouldn't work in other
> > > > > browsers (which it does) and you would never be able to develop map
> > > > > applications locally (you would not get a key for localhost).
>
> > > > You shouldn't get the key error and then get a working map.  What that
> > > > means is you are including the API javascript with either no key or an
> > > > invalid key once and including it correctly once.
>
> > > > I see your custom icon appear (a red marker with the letter A), then a
> > > > normal default marker gets put on top of it (when I copy your page
> > > > locally so I don't have to deal with the key error).
>
> > > If I reduce your css to:
> > > <style media="screen" type="text/css">
> > > html{background:#fff;}
> > > .map{
> > >         float:right;
> > >         padding:5px 8px 0 0;
>
> > > }
>
> > > #map {
> > >   width: 319px;
> > >   height: 212px;}
>
> > > </style>
>
> > > It works for me (in IE6).
>
> > > > > On 8 Apr., 18:35, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > On Apr 8, 8:33 am, marcoow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Alright, see your point ;)
>
> > > > > > > Sample is here:
>
> > > > > > >http://dev.simplabs.com/test/test.html
>
> > > > > > You need to get a key for that site and put it in that map so we can
> > > > > > see it in action.  I currently get a key error when I try to look at
> > > > > > the map.
>
> > > > > > > I stripped everything except for the map part and it still does 
> > > > > > > now
> > > > > > > work in IE:
>
> > > > > > > On 8 Apr., 15:45, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
> > > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > On Apr 8, 4:53 am, marcoow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > Those are just snippts from my source file. See the complete 
> > > > > > > > > file here
> > > > > > > > > (class Map at the very end):http://gist.github.com/91739
>
> > > > > > > > > Can't post a link to the complete site, it's still in 
> > > > > > > > > development and
> > > > > > > > > my customer won't allow me to publish it.
>
> > > > > > > > You are doing something wrong.  I'm from Missouri, show me that 
> > > > > > > > it
> > > > > > > > doesn't work, and I might investigate why.
>
> > > > > > > > You are the one being paid to fix it.  If you want help, help 
> > > > > > > > us to
> > > > > > > > help you.   Make a sample map that shows the problem but 
> > > > > > > > removes all
> > > > > > > > your customer's information, post it on a different site and 
> > > > > > > > give a
> > > > > > > > link to it.  Doing that might even help you solve it yourself.
>
> > > > > > > >   -- Larry
>
> > > > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > > > Marco
>
> > > > > > > > > On 8 Apr., 11:33, Andrew Leach 
> > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > On Apr 8, 9:48 am, marcoow <[email protected]> 
> > > > > > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > Could anybody help? I really hav no idea what the problem 
> > > > > > > > > > > is. I think
> > > > > > > > > > > it's essentially the same code as in the Google Maps 
> > > > > > > > > > > example (which
> > > > > > > > > > > works):
>
> > > > > > > > > > It's nothing like it! The word "this" doesn't appear in the 
> > > > > > > > > > example at
> > > > > > > > > > all. What is "this"? And the comma right at the end of your 
> > > > > > > > > > code
> > > > > > > > > > snippet could be a problem, depending on what comes after 
> > > > > > > > > > it.
>
> > > > > > > > > > Please give a link. Code snippets out of context don't 
> > > > > > > > > > really help.
> > > > > > > > > > (Which is what it says in the posting guidelines)
>
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