Google Maps and draggable markers

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hi!

I have a question. I'm using Ratty's MapKit framework which is - in
his own words - quite hacky (http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit/tree/
master). But it does the job pretty well. I can't get one thing to
work, though: draggable google maps markers. I've extended Ratty's
demo project here: http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit-HelloWorld/tree/master

It adds a draggable marker, but the problem is that it's not really
draggable. Does the CPView intercept the mouse events that the marker
should receive? Is there a way how I can get around that and make it
work?

I've already tried to set setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:NO on the window,
but that didn't help either.

Oh, and here's a very simple demo of how it should actually work:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/marker-drag.html

Thank you so much!

- Johannes

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[Jérôme Denanot]

That looks a very interesting CP project !

2009/9/7 Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahr...@gmail.com>

[Francisco Tolmasky]

In MapView, try the following:

- (void)mouseDragged:(CPEvent)anEvent
{
[[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
}

- (void)mouseDown:(CPEvent)anEvent
{
[[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
}

- (void)mouseUp:(CPEvent)anEvent
{
[[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
}

I'm *not* sure if this will work with the current HTML 5 drag and drop
stuff (you may see the "whole world" drag). I will look more in depth
tomorrow morning.

On Sep 7, 9:40 am, Jérôme Denanot <jdena...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That looks a very interesting CP project !
>

> 2009/9/7 Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahrenk...@gmail.com>

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hi Francisco,

Thank you for your reply, but this doesn't seem to help. Adding log
messages shows that these methods are not ever called.
Thank you for looking more in depth tomorrow!

- Johannes

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hi Francisco,

did you have a chance to look at this yet?

Thanks!

- Johannes

On Sep 8, 12:31 pm, Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahrenk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Francisco,
>
> Thank you for your reply, but this doesn't seem to help. Adding log
> messages shows that these methods are not ever called.
> Thank you for looking more in depth tomorrow!
>
> - Johannes
>
> On Sep 8, 12:03 pm, Francisco Tolmasky <franci...@280north.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In MapView, try the following:
>
> > - (void)mouseDragged:(CPEvent)anEvent
> > {
> >     [[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
>
> > }
>
> > - (void)mouseDown:(CPEvent)anEvent
> > {
> >     [[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
>
> > }
>
> > - (void)mouseUp:(CPEvent)anEvent
> > {
> >     [[[self window] platformWindow] _propagateCurrentDOMEvent:YES];
>
> > }
>
> > I'm *not* sure if this will work with the current HTML 5 drag and drop
> > stuff (you may see the "whole world" drag). I will look more in depth
> > tomorrow morning.
>
> > On Sep 7, 9:40 am, Jérôme Denanot <jdena...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > That looks a very interesting CP project !
>
> > > 2009/9/7 Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahrenk...@gmail.com>
>
> > > > Hi!
>
> > > > I have a question. I'm using Ratty's MapKit framework which is - in
> > > > his own words - quite hacky (http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit/tree/
> > > > master). But it does the job pretty well. I can't get one thing to

> > > > work, though:draggablegoogle maps markers. I've extended Ratty's

> > > > demo project here:
> > > >http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit-HelloWorld/tree/master
>

> > > > It adds adraggablemarker, but the problem is that it's not really

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

I'm really sorry that I'm bugging you guys like this, but I'm working
on an urgent client project and if you could give me some pointers
about this sometime this week I'd be forever grateful :)

- Johannes

On Sep 10, 11:17 am, Johannes Fahrenkrug <jfahrenk...@gmail.com>

[Tom Robinson]

Try putting it in an iframe instead of directly in the application's
DOM (probably using CPWebView, with scrollbars disabled)

I've tried to get GMaps working in the DOM a couple times before with
limited success. Using an iframe should hopefully solve all the
problems.

-tom

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Thanks for the tip, Tom!

Very, very rough around the edges, but draggable google maps markers
in cappuccino work: http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit-HelloWorld

- Johannes

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Ok, I've cleaned it all up a bit:
http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit (with new README) and
http://github.com/jfahrenkrug/MapKit-HelloWorld

This will also show you how to get your CPWebView to resize
(hopefully) correctly.

- Johannes

[John Fox]

Hi Johannes:

This is a fantastic starting point. Many thanks for sharing this.

Best, 

John

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