When 1 marker changes we just repaint the "dirty rectangle" around it, so it's quite fast to pop a marker in or out of a tile.
There's a minor issue with leaving the tile alone and rendering another copy of the marker in front: translucent markers would suddenly appear to have higher opacity. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM, bratliff <bratl...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2:07 am, Ben Appleton <apple...@google.com> wrote: > > > We will soon add a robust way to bring a marker to the front. > > You could leave the main CANVAS tiles containing many markers alone. > You could float a separate CANVAS element containing just one marker > over it. It also works for temporary style (color / opacity) changes > to one marker without changing the main tiles. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
