Persistent Zoom controls on map

[lele]

Hi what's the proper way to have persistent zoom buttons on the screen? I had a look at (https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge/blob/master/mapsforge-map-android/src/main/java/org/mapsforge/map/android/input/MapZoomControls.java) and didn't see such option.

The easiest would be to edit out

private static class ZoomControlsHideHandler extends Handler {
	private final ZoomControls zoomControls;
	ZoomControlsHideHandler(ZoomControls zoomControls) {
	super();
	this.zoomControls = zoomControls;
	}
	@Override
	public void handleMessage(Message message) {
	this.zoomControls.hide();
	}
	}

or

private static final long ZOOM_CONTROLS_TIMEOUT = ViewConfiguration.getZoomControlsTimeout();

but it's a bit of a hack.

Any better ideas? Anything that doesn't require messing with the code or overriding classes (future compatibility)?

thanks

[Emux]

A better way would be to just put your own 2 buttons on your layout and simply call zoom in/out in them.

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Emux
Cruiser - Atlas

[lele]

cheers Emux

[Emux]

On second thought we probably can use more options on zoom controls.

I opened an issue for that too.

[Emux]

I pushed on dev the feature for zoom controls to have auto hide optional.
mapView.getMapZoomControls().setAutoHide(false);

An example of that is currently Diagnostics map viewer in Samples.

[Emux]

I pushed also on dev customizable horizontal and vertical offsets for zoom controls.

It can be useful for better fine tuning their position on screen.