I did this in the <font size="2">
<p>redraw:</p>
<div></div></font>method of the panel.js itself with the following lines but it is a total hack and only for my application:<font size="2"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"></font>
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<div></div></font>var ctrlName = this.controls[i].CLASS_NAME.replace("OpenLayers.", "").replace("Control.","");<br>var title = null;<br> <br>if (ctrlName == "ZoomBox") {
<br> title = "Zoom to Location";<br>};<br>if (title != null) {<br> element.title = title;<br>}<br>this.div.appendChild(element);<br>
<div>A title would be great as well as the ability to hide/show a control.</div>
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<div>My understanding is that this title attribute is only good in IE.</div>
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<div>Linda Rawson<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 21, 2008 2:33 PM, Gregor Mosheh <<a href="mailto:gregor@hostgis.com">gregor@hostgis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This one sounded easer than it turned out to be. :)<br><br>HTML elements can have a title attribute, and most browsers will show
<br>that text when the mouse hovers over the element.<br><br>How may I apply this to OL Controls? I tried a few of the more obvious<br>approaches, such as adding "this.div.title = 'Pan the map'" in<br>initialize() but to no avail.
<br><br>Is this non-trivial to do? Is a 'title' param something that would be<br>useful to add to Control itself for making a general solution to this?<br><br>--<br>Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth, BS, A+<br>System Administrator
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Linda Rawson