[OpenLayers-Users] Popup closebox and formatting.

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On 5/31/07, kaka <drspencer at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to add a closebox to some markers, but I can??t get the close
> > boxes to show up. See http://www.villageografica.com/test50/test.html for a
> > test. The markers are located in
> > http://www.villageografica.com/test50/ProjectLocations.txt . What am I doing
> > wrong here?
> 
> Unfortunatly I don' think you can have closeboxes with a Text layer.
> Indeed, the Text layer uses feature.createPopup()  as opposed to
> feature.createPopup(true). What you can do is create a class that
> inherits from OpenLayers.Layer.Text and overrides the markerClick()
> method - something along these lines (*untested*) :

Just to throw my weight behind this: this is probably true at the
moment, and Eric's suggested fix is about right (though I've similarly
not tested it). I would consider this a bug though, and would take a
patch to fix it.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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