It seems the mousedown is consumed by the Maps API to enable dragging support.
I did a search on the Google-Maps-API group and found a number of suggestions. http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/search?group=Google-Maps-API&q=mousedown&qt_g=Search+this+group On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using GWT 1.5.3 with gwt-maps-1.0 to put a map on my web page. > > I'd like the user to be able to drag out a box on the map by clicking > the left mouse button on the upper left corner of the box and dragging > it to the lower right corner, with rubber-banding so the box displays > during the drag. > > Then I'd like to read off the lat and lon of the corners of the user's > box so I know what area they selected (I'll create a Polygon and do an > addOverlay on the MapWidget to display the box). > > I'm wrapping the MapWidget in a FocusPanel so I can grab the mouse > events. I'm getting mouseUp and mouseMove events, but not mouseDown > events. > > I do a setDraggable(false) on the MapWidget before putting the > MouseListener on the FocusPanel. > > Is there anything else I need to do? > > > Steve > > > > -- Eric Z. Ayers - GWT Team - Atlanta, GA USA http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---