On Mar 23, 8:49 am, Dan Witten <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ok, first of all, thanks for the help and being so patient.
>
> It is working in FF, but only after I tweaked my browser settings
> (something I'm not sure the regular user would be able to do on their
> own....).  I just use Firebug as a way to watch styles/dimentions as
> the JS is working and to check for JS errors, so that just happened to
> be what I used to make sure the height and width did in fact end up
> with my specified dimentions.  I just checked the element with Chrome
> and got the same result (both height and width @ 300px).
>
> I have not set any width or height dimentions with percentage, so
> hopefully that isnt the issue.
>
> the "checkHeight" function didn't effect it when commented out.
>
> for definition's sake, what is considered "reported"?
> is it decided when you initialize the map?

Yes.  You can set it specifically with the "size" option to the GMap2
constructor:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMapOptions.size
or call checkResize() at anytime to update it:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMap2.checkResize

> I am initializing the map while it is contained within a hidden element.  The 
> display of its parent node is
> set to 'none', but the height and width aren't adjusted at all.

That is usually the root cause of problems like this.  Try the size
optional parameter.

>
> I will try your code snippet, and hopefully it will give the result
> that I'm looking for.

I wouldn't expect it to change anything.

   -- Larry

>
> Thank you so much again!
>
> -Dan

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