[OpenLayers-Users] Changing icons in GeoRSS layer?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:13:51PM -0600, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> > I have a GeoRSS layer working; that part was easy.
> > Now I would like to change the icons for the markers.
> 
> Curioser and curioser. Although the API doc mentions that the layer has 
> a 'icon' property to set the icon for the points, looking at the source 
> (Layer/GeoRSS.js line 146) seems to indicate that the icon will always 
> be OpenLayers.Marker.defaultIcon(). There's no indication that the 
> 'icon' property is in fact used. Am I wrong about this?
> 
> My particular issue is of changing the icons after the fact, but I found 
> this interesting.

Versions, my friend.

This isn't obvious, since we didn't have APIDocs in 2.4, but the icon
property was added after 2.4, and is currently only in trunk. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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