[OpenLayers-Users] Framed Cloud Popup - Tail interferring with layer

[David Fawcett]

I was looking into this issue several months ago, but didn't get very far.

I am sure that Google implements their popups in a different way, but
this doesn't seem to be an issue in Google maps.  I guess that they
just destroy a popup when you click near the tail, this allows you to
create a new popup with your next click.  I assume that one could
customize their own popups to do this.  Of course, you wouldn't be
able to have multiple popups for nearby features.

Shawn, can you share the URL to the example in the sandbox?

Thanks,

David.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Shawn Oatley<shawn at niagarafalls.ca> wrote:
> Thanks for the idea.  I found a copy of one in the sandbox seems to work
> much better!!
>
> Shawn
>>>> On 6/12/2009 at 7:43 AM, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
>>>> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:06:40AM -0700, soatley wrote:
>>
>> I am having a problem using the popups to display data and have confirmed
>> it
>> with the 'Popup Matrix' example :
>> http://www.openlayers.com/dev/examples/popupMatrix.html
>>
>> To re-create, click on the very bottom row of popups (overflow:hidden) of
>> the first 'min size (400X400)' column.  You should see the popup appear
>> above the row.  Now try and click on one of the markers right by the tail.
>> The easiest one to try is the marker right above the one you just clicked
>> on.
>>
>> This happens in Firefox, Safari and IE 8  (haven't tried 7).  In
>> Firefox/Safari, it is worse than IE.  In IE, it is just the markers by the
>> tail that are affected.  In the others, it is the markers that are below
>> the
>> popup but parallel to the tail.
>>
>> This is a problem for me because I use popups to show property information
>> and quite often, the properties are beside one-and-other or in that area
>> below the popup.
>>
>> Has anyone tried a work-around for this?
>
> I created a popup with a smaller tail for my applications as a
> workaround to this. It's definitely not browser specific, and has always
> affected the code.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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