Hi, have you considered using a vector layer with an externalGraphic instead? It should be fairly easy to change the appearance of that through the asscioated styles and redraw the features.
Best regards, Bart > New to Openlayers. Great project, many thanks to all who put so much work > into creating and documenting it! > > What would be the idiomatic way to have the markers on my map with part of > their appearance being dynamically generated and changeable? > > This is to display relative temporal information on the markers: as the > user changes their location in time instead of space, using controls > outside of the map itself, I need my markers to change their appearance in > a dynamically-generated (ie local javascript) fashion. > > It would be possible to have a fixed set of graphics that they switch > between, but there would be a largish number of these, so it would be > preferable to just generate them locally via Javascript. Best of all > possible worlds would probably be to fetch a "base" marker and then copy > it, add the custom graphic as a layer on top of it, drop it on the map, > then be able to get at it and just change its custom layer with javascript > drawing commands (I'm okay with having to use HTML5 for this, but I'd > prefer not to). > > The graphic I want to draw on top of the marker isn't complicated two or > three lines at right angles, so I should be able to dynamically update > even a fair number of markers assuming there isn't a massive drawing > overhead. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Looking for flexible support on OpenLayers or GeoExt? Please check out http://www.osgis.nl/support.html Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS bart...@osgis.nl _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
