In the future, this type of thing should be sent to the users list. On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:37 AM, ext Richard Ive wrote:
> Hi All. > > I have a problem I'm trying to solve, but unfortunately I am not having much > luck so I was wondering whether anyone has seen this before. > > I have created a map that plots hotels on a layer as vector features. I have > used the style property of the vector feature to change the look of the icon > depending on availability etc. The problem I am having is that I want to > hover over the hotels, and on hover I want to display some rate information > about that particular hotel, alternatively I want to provide the same > information on click. I was trying to use the createPopup() method on the > vector, but, as the document states that returns NULL which isn't much use. > To my understanding a vector feature is the best method of creating icons on > the map and binding events to them (please correct me if I am wrong), but I > can't seem to work out a solution for creating information popups. > > Does anyone have any ideas, or have had this problem themselves? I am > completely open to suggestion as I'm not convinced I'm using OpenLayers > correctly in this context. Also, sorry if I haven't explained myself very > well. Have you reviewed http://docs.openlayers.org/library/overlays.html#displaying-popups ? I think this is likely the best source of information for you on this topic. -- Chris > Thanks for you help. > > Kind Regards, > Richard Ive > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
