I found this variable now, and it fixed the icon issue I was having.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><b><i>Pg <pg.navone@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> xmlOverlayUseCanvas is a (dirty) global variable defined in kaXmlOverlay.js<br><br>After the directive <br><br><script type="text/javascript" src="XMLOverlay/kaXmlOverlay.js"></script><br><br> this variable should be globally defined and initialized to "true".<br><br>The use of this variable is described in the documentation of kaXmlOverlay that is in the JavaScript file, and is mirrored and beautified in <br><br><a href="http://ka-map.ominiverdi.org/wiki/index.php/Overlay_API_Reference">http://ka-map.ominiverdi.org/wiki/index.php/Overlay_API_Reference</a><br><br>If you can't find the xmlOverlayUseCanvas variable, probably you are using an old version of kaXmlOverlay. If this is the case, so my hint is not
usefull for you. <br><br>-Pg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/7/27, Alvin Clay <<a href="mailto:orionkamap@yahoo.com">orionkamap@yahoo.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Thanks. I got the extents working, but still don't have the icon issue sorted out.<br><br>I can't find the xmlOverlayUseCanvas variable, where is that?<br><br>- Alvin</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10cb1f174589785d_1"> <br><br><br><br><b><i>Pg <<a href="mailto:pg.navone@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pg.navone@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> In order to properly initialize kaXmlOverlay you should wait for the KAMAP_MAP_INITIALIZED event. So register an handler for that event <br><br>myKaMap.registerForEvent(
KAMAP_MAP_INITIALIZED, null, mapInitializedHandler ); <br><br>and move the kaXmlOverlay init in the mapInitializedHandler() function.<br>(See the doc in the source).<br><br><br>For the bad icon rendering, if you are using the CVS version, the default behaviour is to render icons with <canvas> or VML, in order to support rotation. <br><br>To render icons in the old traditional way set the variable<br><br> xmlOverlayUseCanvas = false;<br><br>before creating the overlay.<br><br>If this helps, please let me know which browser you're using.<br><br> -Pg <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/7/26, Alvin Clay <<a href="mailto:orionkamap@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> orionkamap@yahoo.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>What do I need to set to have the map start at a certain center
point and zoom level, I tried this but only got blank maps and zoom was all the way at 0. <br><br> var map = getQueryParam('map');<br> var extents = [-75,40,8]; <br> var cps = getQueryParam('cps');<br> <br> myKaMap = new kaMap( 'viewport' );<br> var kaNav = new kaNavigator( myKaMap );<br> kaNav.activate();<br> myKaZoomer = new kaZoomer(myKaMap); <br> drawPage(); <br> myKaMap.initialize( map, extents, cps );<br> myXmlOverlay = new kaXmlOverlay( myKaMap, 250 );<br> myXmlOverlay.loadXml('points.xml');<br><br>...........................<br><br><br>Also, I have a problem with the icon I created for overlays. <br><br>This is the icon graphic:<br><br><a href="http://209.200.237.68/images/dot.gif" target="_blank" onclick="return
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