OK, so I figured it out but I only have speculation as to why it works. I will post it here just in case anyone ever wants to read it. You may not be able to tell from the scrambled HTML/Javascript code that I posted, but there is a CSS statement that defines the width and height of the map <div> that is used to display the map. Based upon examples I had seen on the net, I set the width to 100% and the height to 350px. I guess this works when you are using it in a browser, but I don't think that it knows how to communicate with AIR to determine the width of the HTMLloader, which I also had set to a percentage. I think that google needs to be able to determine the dimensions of your display container so that when you ask it to center the map on a coordinate point, it knows how to set up all the coordinates and dimensions. So I simply set the width of my HTMLloader to a fixed size of 1385px, and changed the CSS in the HTML file to set the <div> to a hard-wired 1385px, and voila!, it popped up quickly every time. Go figure.
This leads me to a related question that you may be able to help with regarding the htmlloader. The code that I have adds a simple "title" attribute to a marker that you can place on the map. I can successfully add a map marker in the HTMLloader. When the code is executed in a browser, a simple tooltip is displayed when you mouseover the marker displaying the string that you set as the title. The tooltips do not respond in the htmlloader. You can also create a infoWindow that opens when you click on a marker. I created one that works in a browser but does not work inside the htmlloader. Do you have any thoughts as to why the htmlloader does not display tooltips the way that a browser does. The map does respond to things such as clicking on the zoom in and out buttons, and you can click on the satellite button with no problem, so I don't think that it is likely to be a focus issue. Any thoughts? -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Loading-Google-Maps-into-HTMLLoader-is-very-slow-the-first-time-tp13066p13074.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
