Glad it worked out. Curious.. the overlayitem stuff seems to work pretty well.. why would you need to be able to control clicks directly on the map at any point, instead of providing overlayitems?
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Jason Proctor < jason.android.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kevin Duffey wrote: >> >>> Using Mark Murphy's online books, he describes how to do this. I don't >>> know if it is the only way, but basically you extend >>> ItemizedOverlay<OverlayItem>, in the constructor you do the >>> items.add(OverlyaItem) method call. This will add overlayitem's to the >>> map. These items are clickable and you can implement the click handler >>> in the OverlayItem extending class that you provide/add. >>> >> >> That'll work for tapping on an OverlayItem. It will not work for tapping >> on arbitrary spots on the map, though. I haven't tried doing that. >> > > yeah, as i might have said ;-) i tried overlayitem.onTap() etc and got > nowhere. supposedly as you say it will trap a click on the item in the > overlay, but it didn't work for me. > > however, i made a mistake in my code, and found that subclassing MapView > and overriding onTouchEvent() actually works. it's quite a heavy-handed way > of doing it, as i don't have much facility for selectively filtering events. > > eh, ok i could mock up my own retroactive ACTION_DOWN in the situation > where the drag goes outside my slop allowance, but that seems very messy... > > thanks all > -- > jason.vp.engineering.particle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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