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

[Lance Dyas]

Lance Dyas wrote:
> 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)
Less vaguely put I commented out these lines
 
if (position) {
            this.position = position;
        }