You can do this by defining a custom .toString method, like:
singleMarker.toString = function() {
return this.id;
};
Then you can write:
myMarkers[singleMarker] = singleMarker;
- Ben
Android brevity
On Jun 30, 2011 7:53 PM, "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 June 2011 16:08, Arnaud <upsid...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> Ok thank you, I will try that. Sounds good.
>>
>>
>> On 29.06.11 15:24, "Pil" <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>This should work (untested pseudocode):
>>>
>>>function createMarker(id) {
>>>
>>> var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
>>> position: latlng,
>>> icon: image,
>>> map: map,
>>> title: name,
>>> draggable: true,
>>> id: id
>>> });
>>> gmarkers.push(marker);
>>>}
>>>
>>>Now it should be possible to access every marker in gmarkers array by
>>>its id:
>>>
>>> for (var i = 0; i < gmarkers.length; i++) {
>>> if (gmarkers[i].id == someid) {
>>> // do soemthing with your specific marker
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Jun 29, 12:21 pm, MrUpsidown <upsid...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Within a function, I create several markers and I need to assign them
>>>> a specific ID.
>>>>
>>>> var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
>>>> position: latlng,
>>>> icon: image,
>>>> map: map,
>>>> title: name,
>>>> draggable: true
>>>> });
>>>>
>>>> marker.myid = markerid;
>>>>
>>>> gmarkers.push(marker);
>>>>
>>>> Now I have another function from which I want to 'click' a link that
>>>> contains the marker id and fire a click event
>>>>
>>>> function spotClick(markerId) {
>>>>
>>>> google.maps.event.trigger(gmarkers[markerId],"click");
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> This obviously does not work. How am I supposed to refer to marker by
>>>> the ID I assigned to it earlier?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
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>
> I have a similar need. I'd like to be able to open a map, add a load
> of markers (the position of vehicles performing certain duties).
>
> I have a mechanism to periodically get the lastest data and to update
> the positions of the vehicles.
>
> Based upon the example code that Pil provided, I think I can get that
> bit all working.
>
> I can handle a new vehicle (vehicles go on and off jobs, so as a
> vehicle goes on job it appears on the map).
>
> The part I can't seem to do is to deal with a vehicle that goes off job.
>
> I think ...
>
> var marker = new google.maps.Marker(...);
>
> could be ...
>
> var singleMarker = {
> id: 'this_markers_id',
> lastUpdated : Date.now(),
> marker : new google.maps.Marker(...)
> };
>
> myMarkers.push(singleMarker);
>
> Ideally, I'd like to use the ID as a key (like in an associative array).
>
> So, maybe ...
>
> myMarkers['this_markers_id'] = singleMarker;
>
> Does this sound feasible?
>
>
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