Thanks Terry, I chose to just use a mapInit function and fix up all my global variables and such, much nicer now but I'm still having trouble with MarkerClusterer. I understand about asynchronous now, and that the data isn't there when it's trying to be used, but how do I get around that? I read about callback functions and the like, but I'm not sure how to adapt that for what I need? I was looking at this site http://w3future.com/html/stories/callbacks.xml and I understand the concept but just not how to adapt it for my use?
On Jul 22, 3:52 am, nolybab <[email protected]> wrote: > jack, > > honestly, the very best way to load the maps api (at least in my > opinion) is to use google's ajax loader, using google.load, and then > to call google.setOnLoadCallback. > if you'd like more details about that method, let me know and I can > give you some good example code... > > however, to keep it simple, you can just call the load in your body > tag...for example: > > <body onload="mapInit()" onunload="GUnload()"/> > > in this example, "mapInit()" is a function YOU provide and GUnload() > is provided by the google maps api > > hope this helps... > > --noly > > On Jul 21, 1:44 pm, jacksplatt11 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks guys for your responses, Larry I remember now reading about > > asynchronous before so I'll read more into that. > > > Terry, you're absolutely right, I can't believe I didn't notice that, > > I haven't done much programming/coding in the last 6 months and before > > that I was only a beginner anyway really but that's a rookie mistake. > > I'll fix up all that and get all the functions and variables out of > > the if loop. Also, when you say calling a function with an onload even > > in the body tag, are you referring to where I have seen things like > > <body onload="initialize()" onload="gunload()"> as opposed to where I > > just have <body onload="gunload()"> and all my map initialization is > > in the aforementioned if statement, whereas others have the > > initilazition function in the <head> tags. I have seen tutorials of it > > both ways, is one way better or more desirable? > > > Thanks for all the help so far --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
