[OpenLayers-Users] A question of control

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:59:35AM -0400, Ted Scott wrote:
> Hey, I'm new to OL and stood up a simple stack to gain familiarity 
> before diving into my projects whole hog. In addition to the normal 
> learning pains, I keep getting errors when attempting to create a new 
> map control. Specifically, I get "TypeError: 
> OpenLayers.Control.OverviewMap is not a constructor" when trying to 
> create an overview map control, but this isn't the only control this 
> will happen with. The exact same call works in the OL demo pages 
> included with GeoServer, so, this should work, but alas it does not.

> I'm using the OL library that shipped with GeoServer 1.7.2 which I think 
> is OL 2.6

Sounds like the OpenLayers in questio may not have the overviewmap
control built in. I would recommend pointing your OpenLayers.js directly 
to http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js and trying again.

-- Chris

> 
> The other thing I noticed is that when I have firebug 1.3 enabled, it's 
> like the init() is never called from the body tag onload attribute.
> 
> So since I can't seem to be able to drive it with firebug, how do I go 
> about troubleshooting this?
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Christopher Schmidt
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