[OpenLayers-Users] Tooltip

[Gregor Mosheh]

Gérald Quintana wrote:
> Is it possible to display a tooltip when the mouse stops moving over the map?

I posted my responses a few weeks ago, along with some working code. 
Check the archives and ask again if you can't find it.

The basic outline is:
- add a mousemove handler to the map object
- the event handler saves the event to a variable, and does a 
clearTimeout() and setTimeout() to keep from firing the handler a 
zillion times when someone sneezes
- the timeout's handler reads the variable and does basically the same 
as you would for a click event

As far as I could tell, the map itself didn't have a hover event, that 
was only for vector objects. If I'm wrong about that and the map does 
have a hover event, I'd love to be corrected because that could simplify 
my approach significantly.

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