[OpenLayers-Users] MouseToolbar to exist outside the map?

[Lance Dyas]

Lance Dyas wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:10:22AM -0600, Lance Dyas wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> The Overview map can already do this I need the MouseToolbar to do it?
>>> Any ideas on how to go about it? I was looking at the code in OverviewMap.js
>>> and not seeing anything obvious.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Should be able to follow the same technique as for the OverviewMap:
>> pass in a 'div' option to the control with the div set to an HTML
>> element in which you want the control placed. I haven't tested it, so if
>> you have problems with that, please feel free to report them to the
>> mailing list or as tickets.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   
>>     
> currently this is broken for MouseToolbar.
>
> I was able to make this work but only after noteable hijinx...
> at some point the position object get's incorrectly set to
> equal the "div" element.
>
> Some of the problem was in initialize for MouseToolbar.
>
> I will get back to you on details,as  I fixed it at work
>  in the TNTmap widget and code which works in Safari
> well doesnt always play nice in other arenas
 It seems the main change that I made was removing the positioning 
during initialization
for MouseToolbar, not as complex a fix as I thought (some of my earlier 
attempts to decipher
things were interfering)