Comments on: How To Add a Custom Marker On Yahoo! Maps

By: justintime

justintime — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:22:09 +0000

Who is that rude ‘justin’ tosser? What an unappreciative git.

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:15:50 +0000

A simple “sorry” would be enough!

By: justin

justin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:17:24 +0000

I have found the link now, thank you. I felt that the first act of rudeness was your response to my first query. The direction, “At the end,” was ambiguous. When asked to clear up that ambiguity, you simply pasted and earlier part of the page into a comment box. Treating people you don’t know like idiots is rude.

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:43:29 +0000

Justin there is no need to be rude... I just trying to help you. The source files can be downloaded just above the amazon ad. All source files are archived in a zip file and can be downloaded from there. So your rudeness doesn't belong here. And there is no need to put any link for it because it is already there - a link to download all source files. CustomMarker.as is in com/flexer/ folder of the YahooMapsSimple_sources. The CustomMarker.as file is not put separately but together with the project and I will not put is separately. Hope you can understand this.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:28:01 +0000

No, I didn’t miss it. THE END OF WHAT? The page? Nope. The end of the day/year/world? Your last reply wouldn’t have been to terse and unhelpful if you’d just put the link.

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:25 +0000

Justin, as I said in the article:

I’ll not post the CustomMarker class here but it will be available at the end for download and the code fully commented.

the code for CustomMarker can be found in the archive at the end (ready for download) – YahooMapsSimple_sources.

Don’t know how you missed that part

By: justin

justin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:30:39 +0000

Where’s the custommarker.as code?

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:35:57 +0000

David, take a look at the following examples:

http://www.brucephillips.name/flex/yahoomaps/yahoomapsex4/yahoomapsex4.html
http://modestmaps.mapstraction.com/trac/browser/trunk/reference/YahooMaps/com/yahoo/maps/markers/CustomPOIMarker.as?rev=7
http://www.brucephillips.name/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/14/Using-The-New-Yahoo-Maps-ActionScript-3-API--Create-Your-A-SearchMarker-Using-Your-Own-Data - go to Christopher Keeler's comment - he did something like me but more complex

By: David

David — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:25:17 +0000

I like your example, the marker is very nice and clean looking.

Do you know how to make it into a POI marker? In other words, you hover your mouse over (or click) the marker and it shows the text?

I found an example of how to create a POI (Point Of Interest) marker
here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash/flexGettingStarted.html

Come to find out I need to
import com.yahoo.maps.markers.CustomPOIMarker;

I’m struggling to find where I can download CustomPOIMarker.as

I found a version of it here:
http://modestmaps.mapstraction.com/trac/browser/trunk/reference/YahooMaps/com/yahoo/maps/markers/CustomPOIMarker.as?rev=7

However, when I download that and import it into my Flex app, I get
errors in using it.

Specifically I get the error:
“A file found in a source-path must have an externally visible
definition. If a definition in the file is meant to be externally
visible, please put the definition in a package.”

Does anyone know how to use CustomPOIMarker in Flex and where can I
download a public package of it?

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:36:03 +0000

Yes, Nathan! If you intend to make the content of the _urlText dynamic that is a must. But in this example we are displaying only a predefined text: “website”.

Thanks and I’m sorry you didn’t had this article when you need it.