Wasn't it Mike Williams who wrote: > >Wasn't it feanor who wrote: >>Also is it too difficult to write a custom mouseover event for >>gpolygon, which can send the point argument? > >That wouldn't help. Mouseover events only trigger when the mouse moves >from outside to inside, so your tooltip ends up at the border again. >You'd need a poly:mousemove event. > > >Another strategy would be to use mouseover and mouseout to inform you >about which polygon the mouse is over and use > GEvent.addDomListener(map.getContainer(),"mousemove", function(e) >to inform you about where the mouse cursor is. > >The advantage is that that event is still available even when the mouse >is over a clickable poly. > >The big disadvantage is that the API doesn't decode the parameter for >you. You get the browser-specific MouseEvent object. > >In Firefox the code might look something like this: > http://econym.org.uk/temp/domlistener.htm >except that I don't handle the position of the map on the page, and just >assume that the map is in the top left corner. Plus there'd need to be >code to detect which browser is being used and decode the MouseEvent >object appropriately for that browser. >
Furether research seems to suggest that e.clientX and e.clientY might work in all browsers, so all you have to do is subtract the position of the map container. -- Mike Williams http://econym.org.uk/gmap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
