Change in overlay/map click order

[Bradley]

This also relates to an earlier post of mine (http://groups.google.com/
group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/bb0bc9d70994cc0f/
937320e6ba2f6e3a?lnk=gst&q=overlayview#937320e6ba2f6e3a) that was
never answered, but my problem is new.

It seems that the order in which events get triggered when clicking a
map overlay has switched. Previously if I clicked my custom overlay,
I would get a map click first, then an overlay click, now it's the
opposite. (Note, I haven't figured out how to avoid the map click
being triggered on my custom overlay, even though the api says a click
on an overlay should NOT trigger a map click event - previous post
explains that)

Anyway, so my problem is that I open an info window when you click a
marker and close all of them if you click on the map (not on an
overlay) Well this all worked because originally the overlay click
event happened AFTER the map click event, so i could just close all
infowindows on map click and open my specific one on overlay click.
Well now I'm getting the overlay click event first which opens the
infoWindow and map click 2nd which closes all infoWindows, so I never
actually see my infoWindow open. (here's an example:
http://zerochallenge.zerofootprint.net/results)

Once again all this would be mitigated by a proper click handling on
my custom overlays, but I don't know how to do that? How do I specify
the dimensions of my overlay such that a click on it does NOT trigger
a click on the map?

[Susannah (Google Employee)]

Hi Bradley,

Since the event you get on your OverlayView is just a DOM event, you
can stop its propagation/cancel bubbling on it in your event handler
(see this quirksmode article: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_order.html).
This will stop the event from reaching the map at all.

Hope that helps,
Susannah