google.maps.FusionTablesMouseEvent - how to access the info window object? - google-maps

I need to access an InfoWindow object after the user clicks on the map. Unfortunately, the supplied event object only provides the .infoWindowHtml attribute, which lets me customize the InfoWindow contents, but does not let me do anything with info window itself. Is there any way to get the object from JavaScript?
Alternately, I would be perfectly happy open my own InfoWindow from the start. But I can neither stop the Fusion Tables InfoWindow from opening, nor stop it after it has opened. If I open my own, it's just displayed above the stock one. Of course, if my info window will always be bigger, I can just ignore the Fusion Tables info window, but there has to be a better way.
Background: actually, I just need to dynamically load InfoWindow contents. Through some jQuery magic I managed to get to my contents element and change it, but InfoWindow doesn't resize itself, unfortunately, making the content overflow nastily. I hope that if I get to the InfoWindow object and set the content through it, it will resize itself as it should.

To suppress the automatic FusionTablesLayer InfoWindows, use the suppressInfoWindows:true option in the FusionTablesLayers constructor

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Extract image from web page

How to extract the image from this https://www.google.com/maps/#45.8118462,15.9725486,3a,75y/data=!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipOH6lgU7bug2ndyW-9-Uq0kgKqcKDtnGei2N5Qo!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOH6lgU7bug2ndyW-9-Uq0kgKqcKDtnGei2N5Qo%3Dw150-h150-k-no-p!7i3024!8i4032
(If the link disappears let me describe how to reproduce the question. Find any shop on Google Maps that has the "shop title image" appearing in the shop details on the left side when you click on that shop. Click on that image to expand it across the whole viewport.)
I found the <canvas> element that I guess contains the image. I tried to do .getContext('2d') on that canvas element, but I keep getting null.
If you are getting null when doing getContext("2d") it's because an other type of context was created already, in this case, a "webgl" one.
To convert that canvas to a new image, you'd normally call canvas.toBlob() (whatever the context type).
And if you need to crop that canvas content, you'd draw it on an other canvas.
But since they did not prevent the WebGL context to throw away its drawing buffer (by passing preserveDrawingBuffer in the getContext call), you'll only get a transparent image back from it.
Anyway none of these methods will retrieve the original image, but they will create a new image entirely (probably of lesser quality, and bigger in size). To retrieve the original image, check the network tab of your dev tools, or if you need to do it programmatically, inject a script that will spoof all fetch, XHR and HTMLImageElement objects in order to log their resource URL. But that becomes dirty.

TileMap not generated; add to stage?

I'm failrly new to LibGDX and I'm running into a problem.
I'm building a classically styled RPG/Adventure game in which I'm using a TiledMap(-Renderer) to create the map. I've followed different tutorials but can't get it to work. (last one was DPG's: Full working example link)
What I need, is a column of buttons on the right side of the screen (implemented that through ImageButtons). One of these buttons lead to a settings-kind of screen and another one should lead to the game map. Under a ClickListener of the button I've added DPK's code of
MapHelper map = new MapHelper();
map.setPackerDirectory("data/packer");
map.loadMap("data/world/level1/level.tmx");
map.prepareCamera((int)stage.getWidth(), (int)stage.getHeight());
map.getCamera().update();
map.render();
The MapHelper class is an exact copy of dpk's, only change above is the setting of the width and height of the camera. Any suggestion what I'm doing wrong here?
I don't think you want to invoke map.render() in the ClickListener callback. That would mean the map is only rendered when you click, and then not re-rendered (generally everything gets re-rendered on every screen re-fresh).
I think you need to track the map in your application class, and in the ClickListener callback you need to set a flag or somehow "enable" the map (perhaps setting it to something other than null). Then in the application's render() method you can check to see if the map should be rendered or not, and render it if so.
Specifically, move the calls to prepareCamera, getCamera and render out of the ClickListener.

how to know when Map control was first manipulated?

I am using the Map control in Windows Phone 8.
I need to implement a page where user can select his location using the map control.
I am trying to know when the app was first manipulated by the user.
Some background info:
I saw that when the control is shown, it automatically centers the world map, and CenterChanged event is raised.
I am not able to understand how ManipulationStarted, ManipulationDelta and ManipulationCompleted work.
the first time I drag, ManipulationStarted is not called, only ManipulationCompleted.
I could consider the first manipulation by user as being the 2nd time the CenterChanged is fired.
But this is a hack or a guess, I am not happy not having a good understanding how it works.
The Map control intercepts and handles Manipulation events and as such you don't get all of them. Remember, once routed events are marked at e.Handled=true they no longer bubble up.
Depending on your Scenario WP8 exposes the UseOptimizedManipulationRouting property which might prove useful. Setting UseOptimizedManipulationRouting=false causes Map, Pivot and other controls to not swallow events for nested controls.
If that doesn't help, have a look at the following Nokia Wiki article where the author ran into the same problem as you did and used Touch.FrameReported to get out of it # http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Real-time_rotation_of_the_Windows_Phone_8_Map_Control

Why doesn't my use of Google Maps' panTo() method or directions work?

I am having problems with centering the map using the panTo() method - as well as making the directions (from/to) to work like tabs.
Here is my code:
http://dpaste.com/76251/
I'm not too sure what you want the map to do, but there is one big problem with your panTo() function. You placed it inside of the function markerClickHandler() which is called when the markers are created, which happens on page load. So you are calling panTo() three times when the page is loaded.
If you want it to be called when the marker is clicked, place it in the function which is returned by markerClickHandler().
Keep in mind, however, that the movement will likely be interrupted by the opening of the Info Window (which moves the map). The best solution I can think of to that problem is to move the map after the window has opened. You can pass onOpenFn as a GInfoWindowOptions parameter:
map.openInfoWindowTabsHtml(marker.getLatLng(), tabs, {
onOpenFn: function() {
map.panTo(marker.getLatLng());
}
});
Note: for some reason, this only worked if I called openInfoWindowTabsHtml() on the map object instead of the marker - I don't know why.
The example snippet you're linking to is no longer available, but assuming from the answer by Chris, I'm assuming you want to center the marker whose info window was opened. I had the same problem and solved it like this:
GEvent.addListener(marker, 'infowindowopen', function() {
map.panTo(marker.getLatLng());
});

Window settings for Google Maps widget

I've got a plain-vanilla google maps widget sitting in a page and I'd like it if the driving directions opened up in a new window instead of taking over the current window. Is there a setting for this?
The driving directions go into whatever HTML element you specify as the second argument when you construct the GDirections object. So I guess that means you'd have to create the window before you create the GDirections object, which is likely not what you want.
The other thing that jumps out, looking at the documentation, is that you can call the load() method with the option getSteps = true. It's not clear what the "steps" data looks like, but I assume it essentially comes back as an HTML string. (Actually, it's not even clear how you get the data in the first place, but I assume it's GDirections.getSteps() or something similar.) So then when the "load" event happens, you can create the new window then put the "steps" data in it.