[OpenLayers-Users] Tooltip for vectorlayer icons

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 19.05.2012 19:09, schrieb Andreas Hocevar:
> If you download the latest OpenLayers (master from
> http://github.com/openlayers/openlayers, you can simply give your
> symbolizer a 'graphic' property. If your feature attributes have e.g. a
> 'tooltip' attribute, the value for the 'graphic' property would be
> '${tooltip}'.
>
> See http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features.html for an example.

Thanks Andreas, that worked fine for me! But the property is 
title:'blablub' ;)
Unfortunately the newest release seems to make troubles with popups.

Matthias

>
> On May 19, 2012 6:59 PM, "Matthias Meißer" <digi_c at arcor.de
> <mailto:digi_c at arcor.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm working on a map, that get's geoJSON data for a vector layer
>     using an simple REST API server. As I only display the labels on
>     demand and a the density of vector points can get quiet high, I like
>     to display a usual native tooltiptext (aka hint). So if the
>     mousepointer get's over an item, a small text appears that displays
>     a custom text.
>
>     Unfortunately it doesn't seem so easy to realise? I found a lot of
>     old code snippets, that implement it by hand using hover event
>     listeners. On the other side there is www.openflights.org
>     <http://www.openflights.org> that has exactly this behaviour, but
>     the GraphicTitle sollution seems to be limited to icon based
>     visualisiations, right?
>
>     So how can I get the same functionality, without coding from scratch?
>
>     bye
>     Matthias
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