If it's always the same 2 markers, you could bind their icon
properties together. Something like:
marker1.bindTo('icon', marker2);
Then when you change the icon on Marker1 (such as on a mouseover
event), Marker2 will also change icons.
Chad Killingsworth
On Oct 20, 3:54 pm, shadrack <shadke...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I do only want two open at the same time, so I don't think I'll
> implement that code.
>
> However, you bring a good point about crowding. I don't have many
> markers now, but they will expand
> so I expect infowindows may crowd each other.
>
> So, I have a conceptual idea that I don't really know how to implement
> in code. If I developed a different color
> icon (one highlighted yellow or something and the other normal---so
> two icons possible for each marker), then
> how could I activate the yellow icon to show when mouseover...AND the
> marker that it's related to turn yellow
> as well. Could I just add the alternative marker icon in the xml and
> somehow reference that to show up when
> mousing over?
>
> In general, I want to visually connect two markers when the user
> mouses over or clicks on a marker.
>
> I can clarify if necessary. Thanks for your time,
>
> Shad
>
> On Oct 19, 6:23 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Shad,
>
> > Won't it suffice to remove this line? (and turn infowindow into a local
> > variable)
>
> > if (infowindow) infowindow.close();
>
> > ... unless you want _up to two_ open at the same time - as opposed to an
> > unlimited number of InfoWindows open at the same time?
>
> > BTW - from a user perspective, having multiple InfoWindows open at once is
> > usually not very helpful (often, they will overlap, right?) and creates
> > visual clutter as well as requiring a click of the 'X' to close it.
>
> > Cheers
> > Chris
>
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM, shadrack <shadke...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > On this page (http://julieshad.com/ag/map_v3.3.html), if you click on
> > > a marker a message box will be filled on the left hand side. If you
> > > then click on the link "This ___ is connected to _____", the current
> > > infowindow will close and another will open with the message box
> > > displaying information regarding the newly opened infowindow/marker.
>
> > > What I'd like to do is have the new infowindow open and the messagebox
> > > change and filled with the relevant information to the newly opened
> > > window AND keep the initial infowindow open, so there are two
> > > infowindows open at the same time...visually showing the connection
> > > between the two places on the map. You can see my attempt at this
> > > around line 147 and 162 where I use two indices and try to open
> > > windows of both. I've commented out my attempts because they didn't
> > > work. Can anyone help me out on this? I've googled this concept and
> > > haven't found info that was relevant to my attempts.
>
> > > Thanks for your time,
>
> > > Shad
>
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