On Sep 19, 7:03 am, DaveGivesPHPaShot <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm new to java

There is no java involved in the Google Maps JavaScript API v3 (the
topic of this group).  It is javascript.  Java and JavaScript are
different things.

  -- Larry


> and had a hard time understanding the examples 
> herehttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_categories.htm
> and herehttp://www.geocodezip.com/v3_MW_example_categories.html
> compared to the google tutorial 
> herehttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3.html
>
> The first point to understand is that two checkbox examples break the
> xml download and the marker creation into two separate steps.
>
> In the google code, you create a bunch of variables and then, right
> away, you put them into markers and bind the window with this code
>
>           var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
>             map: map,
>             position: point,
>             icon: icon.icon,
>             shadow: icon.shadow
>           });
>           bindInfoWindow(marker, map, infoWindow, html);
>
> In the checkbox examples, you take a detour over to the createmarker
> function. In a way, the creation and binding are still included in the
> 'for' section of the xml parsing, but you might not realize that if
> you are new to Javascript. Just as in the google tutorial, the 'for'
> processes each node of xml; but then instead of creating directly, it
> passes all of the details over to function createmarker for final
> creation. Then the 'for' attacks the next node. Take a look at the
> createmarker function in the two checkbox examples and you'll see code
> similar to the above. Hope that saves someone some time. Now I am
> about to attack the actual checkboxes.

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