Mapstraction - Jun 2010 - Feature Proposal: Infobubble with AJAX content

Hi,

in my projects I often have the need to lazy-load the infobubble content of
a marker via AJAX, mostly because the content is "expensive" to fetch
(requiring a few database queries) and thus can''t be loaded in advance
for
hundreds of markers.

Unfortunately, mapstraction currently offers no "AJAX infobubble",
that can
be asynchronously filled with a server response. This is not
mapstraction''s
fault, also the Google Maps API, Bing etc don''t offer such a
functionality.

Any ideas on how to include such a feature in mapstraction?

Maybe something like

Marker.setAjaxInfoBubble(url, loadingMessage, errorMessage);

kind regards,

Franz
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20100624/a5d3a634/attachment-0001.htm>

>
> Any ideas on how to include such a feature in mapstraction?
>
> Maybe something like
>
> Marker.setAjaxInfoBubble(url, loadingMessage, errorMessage);
>
>
Some of the implementations need a little modification to accommodate it (I
plan to submit my changes for OpenLayers at least), but I use jQuery
something like this:

jQuery.get( content_url, function( content ) {
  marker.setInfoBubble( content );
  marker.openBubble();
} );

The problem with the OpenLayers implementation was that it created the info
bubble in the constructor - I''ve modified it to create a new one in
openBubble.

-dylan-
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20100624/c1737282/attachment.htm>

You can achieve this by handling the info bubble open event. It''s
certainly
not something we''d build into the library as an ajax implementation is
a big
bit of code and devs will likely be already using a library to cater for
doing this.

Derek

On Jun 24, 2010 2:28 PM, "Dylan Kuhn" <dylan.k.kuhn at
gmail.com> wrote:

> > Any ideas on how to include such a feature in mapstraction? > >
Maybe
something like > > Marker....
Some of the implementations need a little modification to accommodate it (I
plan to submit my changes for OpenLayers at least), but I use jQuery
something like this:

jQuery.get( content_url, function( content ) {
  marker.setInfoBubble( content );
  marker.openBubble();
} );

The problem with the OpenLayers implementation was that it created the info
bubble in the constructor - I''ve modified it to create a new one in
openBubble.

-dylan-

_______________________________________________
Mapstraction mailing list
Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com
http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20100703/e93ca8de/attachment.htm>