Initiate polygon drawing from custom button

[Adrien]

I love the new polygon drawing options and have been playing with them
for a couple of days.

On the official documentation I see that it is possible to initiate
the drawing of a polygon by clicking on a button external to the map.
Does anybody know how to do this?
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#updating_the_drawing_tools_control

In other words I would like to be able to create a button similar to
the "Delete selected shape", but which will instead start the drawing
of the polygon:
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/11/make-your-map-interactive-with-shape.html

[Enoch Lau (Google Employee)]

What you can do is have a DrawingManager attached to a map, with drawingControl: false (to hide the default buttons). Then, you can have your html button do the following on click:

    drawingManager.setDrawingMode(google.maps.drawing.OverlayType.POLYGON);

and that'll bring the map into drawing polygon mode programmatically.

Enoch

[Adrien]

Brilliant, thanks. Worked a charm

On Nov 19, 2:36 am, "Enoch Lau (Google Employee)"

[chris marx]

Awesome, I feared that changing the state of the control to "disabled" would disable the drawing functions as well, but clearly this is not the case, and makes extending the control much easier-