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
> 
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