by JeePaRoo » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:17 am
from what I can tell the only way to select a pushpin is by the findpushpin method and this requires the name. it appears to return a dataset with "nothing" if the name is ambiguous that i search for. if I manually pop a pushpin on my map and then use my program to search for it, it does find it it once the ambiguoty is gone. say my pushpins from accutrack are all named "cadikid" and I manually stick a pin named "cadikid12" on the map, if I search on "cadikid" I get no results", if I search on "cadikid1" I get no results, if I search on "cadikid12" I get the data for my pin. alas with a number after each one I could write a routine to find the highest number on the map, basicilly each time my program started it would go searching till it got a hit and go from there.. because as i say a couple things are the problem, one is the map zooms out too far and yes I can zoom it back in via my program however i have to be able to find the newest pushpin to zoom in on, also there are just too many ballons on the map as I refresh often esp when using smartsend on the phone side it fills up quickly. since my users (in this case my roomates) dont have access to the actual mappoint itself (if they did with my luck theyd shut the server down that controls my house) they cant turn the bubbles on or off but again if i can select a pushpin I can control the bubbles on a per pin basis...
-Christopher
from what I can tell the only way to select a pushpin is by the findpushpin method and this requires the name. it appears to return a dataset with "nothing" if the name is ambiguous that i search for. if I manually pop a pushpin on my map and then use my program to search for it, it does find it it once the ambiguoty is gone. say my pushpins from accutrack are all named "cadikid" and I manually stick a pin named "cadikid12" on the map, if I search on "cadikid" I get no results", if I search on "cadikid1" I get no results, if I search on "cadikid12" I get the data for my pin. alas with a number after each one I could write a routine to find the highest number on the map, basicilly each time my program started it would go searching till it got a hit and go from there.. because as i say a couple things are the problem, one is the map zooms out too far and yes I can zoom it back in via my program however i have to be able to find the newest pushpin to zoom in on, also there are just too many ballons on the map as I refresh often esp when using smartsend on the phone side it fills up quickly. since my users (in this case my roomates) dont have access to the actual mappoint itself (if they did with my luck theyd shut the server down that controls my house) they cant turn the bubbles on or off but again if i can select a pushpin I can control the bubbles on a per pin basis...
-Christopher