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 More options Oct 7 2008, 9:33 pm
From: kendawson <kendaw...@shaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:33:17 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Oct 7 2008 9:33 pm
Subject: Re: A little help with: polylines, color change, and mouse pointer/hand cursor
Does anyone have enough knowledge to help out with this?

On Oct 6, 3:55 pm, kendawson <kendaw...@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi All,

> Any help with this would be appreciated.

> I will provide two example links.

> #1-http://www.marschellsmusic.com/API/Map_API__EXAMPLE_01.html

> When you mouse over the polyline at this link, the polyline changes
> color and then changes back again when you mouse out.

> This is great, but do you notice how if you do it at normal speed the
> cursor hand flickers to the “pointer hand” and then changes back to
> the “regular hand” instead of persisting as the “pointer hand” as it
> should?

> I find this very annoying. It only works properly if you mouse up
> really slowly to the polyline the “pointer hand” will persist until
> you mouse more to the center of the line.

> I kow that the cursor can persist as whatever you want, even when you
> make changes to the line because I have seen it in other maps. The
> problem is that I am a newb and those other maps are way to
> complicated for me to find the code that causes the “pointer hand” to
> persist as it should when you make polyline attribute changes.

> You can see that the “pointer hand” has no problem persisting when
> there are no changes to the line like in this example -http://www.marschellsmusic.com/API/Map_API__EXAMPLE_02.html

> The hand remains the pointer until you mouse out in example two. No
> funky proximity type sensitivity.

> Can someone please show me a very simple example of a polyline
> attribute change on mouseover where the “pointer hand” will persist
> until you mouse out.

> Real simple example please, major newb here, no thousands of lines of
> external javascript please.

> Thank you very much in advance for whatever efforts are made here to
> help a major newb out.

> (COME ON GOOGLE MAPS API TEAM, GET WITH SOME BETTER DOCUMENTATION AND
> EXAMPLES.)


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