Why aren't you passing the event to the function so the function call has
access to the properties triggered by the event?

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do you determine the coordinates of the marker clicked on in it's right
> click event handler?  And an even bigger question, how do you make it work
> for all browsers?
>
> My scenario:
> When a marker is right clicked, display a context menu at the marker and
> save the latLon coordinates for later use.
> When "Zoom in" to marker is selected on the context menu, center the map on
> the saved coordinates and zoom in.
>
> My problem:
> The coordinates I am saving are wrong for all browsers except IE.
> I am able to calculate the right pixel location for displaying the
> context menu.  That works in IE, Firefox, Chrome & Safari.  But the lat lon
> coords I am calculating from that pixel position are wrong for all browsers
> except IE.
>
> Javascript:
>         var _googleMap = null;
>         var _overlayView = null; // This will be useful in getting latLon
> from pixel in map's container
>         function load() {
>             var mapTypes = new Array();
>             mapTypes.push(google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP);
>             mapTypes.push(google.maps.MapTypeId.HYBRID);
>             mapTypes.push(google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN);
>             var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(cityLatitudeCenter,
> cityLongitudeCenter);
>
>             var myOptions = {zoom: 8,
>                              center: latlng,
>                              mapTypeControlOptions: { mapTypeIds: mapTypes
> },
>                              mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN };
>             _googleMap = new
> google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("googlemap"), myOptions);
>             google.maps.event.addListener(_googleMap, 'zoom_changed',
> CheckZoom);
>             google.maps.event.addListener(_googleMap, 'bounds_changed',
> SetDefaultMap);  // Saves map position to cookie
>             google.maps.event.addListener(_googleMap, 'center_changed',
> SetDefaultMap);   // Saves map position to cookie
>             google.maps.event.addListener(_googleMap, 'rightclick',
> showContextMenu);
>             google.maps.event.addListener(_googleMap, 'click',
> hideContextMenu);
>             _overlayView = new google.maps.OverlayView();
>             _overlayView.draw = function() { };
>             _overlayView.setMap(_googleMap);
>             loadKMLFiles();  // uses GeoXML3 to parse and place markers on
> map via v3 api
>         }
> // === Global variable that can be used by the context handling functions
> ==
> var clickedLatLng;
>
> markerContextHtml = '<div>' +
>                     '<a href="javascript:zoomIn()"><div class="context"
> onmouseover=this.style.backgroundColor=\'#A0A0A4\'
> onmouseout=this.style.backgroundColor=\'#ffffff\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Zoom In to
> Location&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div><\/a>' +
>                     '<a href="javascript:zoomOut()"><div class="context"
> onmouseover=this.style.backgroundColor=\'#A0A0A4\'
> onmouseout=this.style.backgroundColor=\'#ffffff\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Zoom Out to
> State&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div><\/a>' +
>                     '<\/div>';
>
> function showContextMenu(event) {
>     // This method is called by both a right click event on the map and a
> right click on a marker.
>     // The marker mouseevent does not include latitude longitude
> coordinates
>     var x;
>     var y;
>
>     // Get clicked pixel location
>     if (event.pixel != null) {  // Map mouse event returns pixel in event
>         x = event.pixel.x;
>         y = event.pixel.y;
>     }
>     else if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Explorer") { // Marker event for IE
> returns pixel in event as x and y
>         x = event.x;
>         y = event.y;
>     }
>     else if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Mozilla") { // Marker event for
> Mozilla - must calculate x,y pixel position
>         x = event.clientX - _googleMap.getDiv().offsetLeft -
> window.scrollX;
>         y = event.clientY - _googleMap.getDiv().offsetTop - window.scrollY;
>     }
>     else { // Marker event for other browsers (tested for Chrome and
> Safari) - must calculate x,y pixel position
>         x = event.pageX - _googleMap.getDiv().offsetLeft;
>         y = event.pageY - _googleMap.getDiv().offsetTop;
>     }
>     // Store latLng for later user
>     if (event.latLng != null) { // Click event on map
>         clickedLatLng = event.latLng;
>     }
>     else { // Click event on marker doesn't contain LatLon.  Derive latLon
> from clicked pixel in map's container
>         var xy = new google.maps.Point(x, y);
>         clickedLatLng =
> _overlayView.getProjection().fromDivPixelToLatLng(xy);
>         //clickedLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(this.position.lat(),
> this.position.lon());
>     }
>     // Adjust the context menu location if near an edge
>     if (x > _googleMap.getDiv().offsetWidth - 120) { x =
> _googleMap.getDiv().offsetWidth - 120 }
>     if (y > _googleMap.getDiv().offsetHeight - 100) { y =
> _googleMap.getDiv().offsetHeight - 100 }
>     // Set context menu position
>     contextmenu.innerHTML = markerContextHtml;
>     contextmenu.style.position = "absolute";
>     contextmenu.style.left = x.toString() + "px";
>     contextmenu.style.top = y.toString() + "px";
>     contextmenu.style.visibility = "visible";
>     // Add context menu to the map
>     $(_googleMap.getDiv()).append(contextmenu);
> }
>
> function zoomIn() {
>     // perform the requested operation
>     _googleMap.setCenter(clickedLatLng);
>     _googleMap.setZoom(_maxZoomLevel / 1);  // divide by one to convert to
> number
>     // hide the context menu now that it has been used
>     hideContextMenu();
> }
>
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