I am currently developing a Silverlight OOB application using the Bing Map Control, however I have come across an issue I am struggling to resolve. Basically I have three map layers:-
Base Map (bottom layer)
Icon / Pushpin layer (middle layer)
Shape / drawing layer (top layer)
This all works fine, I have put mouse right click functionality on each of my icons (pushpins if you prefer), if I add a map polygon or polyline to the top layer and this item happens to cover the same area as one of my icons in the middle layer I can no longer get any of the mouse events to fire on my icon.
If anyone can think of a way I can pass the mouse operations from my top layer objects to the middle layer objects please let me know.
Many thanks in advance
Set the IsHitTestVisible of your top layer to false. I feel I need to type more text here but there really isn't much more to say.
It's not clear from your question if you need both the shape and the icon to get the mouse event.
If all you need is for the icon to get the event, then switch the order of your layers so Icon layer is on top.
If you need both shape and icon to get the event, then (if you keep your order with shapes on top) you would need to have some way to tell what icons a shape covers. Do you have a parent/child releationship between them? If not, can you create one? If you set up an event on the shape, and set up OnEvent handlers for the icons that listen to the events, then you can have the icons react as well.
If you are more clear about what your situation is, I could post some code that could help.
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In my design page, the user will be creating/drawing new shapes, in addition to adding image overlays. I'm finding that any shapes drawn using the drawing manager are rendering underneath any image overlays added to the map, see below:
I'd like to know how to achieve a couple of tasks:
1 - How to set the drawing manager so any shape (rectangle/point/circle etc be default is always added as an upper/top layer when the drawingcomplete event has fired, that way the shapes will always appear above any images added to the map.
2 - How to programatically change the order of the various layers created during design, given the user may want to adjust the z-index of the various layers to suit their own endering requirements.
The MS docs here is not really helping me understand how to achieve the above, but also doesnt mention anything about shapes/layers that currently reside within the drawing manager.
Partial answer but along the right tracks...
We can retrieve the shapes (drawing manager layers) from the drawing manager so we have a reference to them.
When i add an image overlay, before actually adding/rendering it to the map, i would first get the shape layers from the drawing manager, then remove them from the map.
Next we add the image overlay to the map and add the shape layers back in as well, its the order that we add/remove the layers that seems to be relevant here.
Once i had added all layers back to the map in the chosen order, i was still able to put the drawing manager into edit mode and select the shape for editing, so i beleive this will work as my solution going forwards.
// Create the image layer
var imageLayer = new atlas.layer.ImageLayer({
url: 'myImageUrl,
coordinates: coordinates
})
// Then get the existing shapes (layers) from the DM
var layers = drawingManager.getLayers();
console.log(layers);
// Remove the shapes.
map.layers.remove(layers.polygonLayer); // polygonLayer as an example...
// Add new image overlay, then the shapes
map.layers.add([imageLayer, layers.polygonLayer]);
I'm looking to imitate the following control, found in the zune software, in the quickplay tab. When you move the mouse from left to right the boxes new, pinned and history move to the opposite direction.
I'm thinking of applying a method to the mousemove handler which checks for the relative position of the cursor and then moves a grid containing panels accordingly but before I try to reinvent the wheel I'd like to ask around if there are people who have more experience with this, especially getting a fluid motion.
Please let me know
Do you mean something like this http://sachabarber.net/?p=829
In a Silverlight application I have large images which have flow charts on them.
I need to handle the clicks on specific hotspots of the image where the flow chart boxes are.
Since the flow charts will always be different, the information of where the hotspots has to be dynamic, e.g. in a list of coordinates.
I've found article like this one but don't need the detail of e.g. the outline of countries but just simple rectangle and circle areas.
I've also found articles where they talk about overlaying an HTML image map over the silverlight application, but it has to be easier than this.
What is the best way to handle clicks on specific areas of an image in silverlight?
Place the Image and a Canvas in a Grid so that the Canvas overlays the Image.
Add shapes of appropriate sizes and placed as needed to the canvas. All shapes will a transparent fill and no border, hence the user only sees the Image. On the Canvas MouseDown (or Up events) use OriginalSource to determine which shape generated the click. Use the Tag property of each shape to associate it with some object that represents the flowchart element being mapped.
I found an easy way to do this without a canvas:
How to get the coordinates of an image mouse click in the event handler?
I have just created a simple animation. Lets say that in one frame I have an image of the world. I would like to create an event when a certain country is chosen. How can I allow for the event to be triggered by clicking on one particular country in an image? e.g. just displaying the name of the country, etc
Thank you
Extra info: In other words I am trying to split my image into regions using Blend...Do I need to "Clip the image"? I clipped part of the image but dont know what to do now. can anyone help me please?
If you just want "hotspots" over the image that you can click on, you could simply draw some shapes over the areas and set their opacity to 0 then handle the mouse events on them(don't change visibility to collapsed, since that will mean they won't received any mouse events)
I currently have a Silverlight canvas that exceeds the viewable area of the screen (I'm letting the users drag the viewable areas around to navigate). I'm trying to display a modal popup that always shows up in the middle of the viewable area, and I can't seem to find any property that tells me what currently is on the screen. Basically if the user has panned down to the bottom and clicks something that causes a modal popup to appear it is stuck at the far top of the screen.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
~Steve
I don't think this is possible since the visibility isn't being surfaced. Perhaps with some fun JavaScript to figure out where the panning is?
Quite true. I wound up creating a holding canvas, making that full screen, and putting everything else as a child canvas within that. The modal popup now comes up in the holding canvas.
Gabriel Guimarães one works good.
App.Current.Host.Content.ActualHeight(and ActualWidth) does bring the browser size inside. Good for calculating position. And of course you can use LayoutUpdated on your main control to double check the sizes and resize stuff if need be.