[Users] Workaround for google layers not playing nice with treepanel - MORE DIAGNOSIS of the problem

[Andreas Hocevar]

Can you please share a minimal example that shows the issue? This will make it much easier to investigate the problem.

Thanks,
Andreas.

On May 28, 2010, at 02:23 , Phil Scadden wrote:

> I have actually made some progress in finding out what is going on but 
> still stumped. Here is the nub of the issue as far as I can see.
> 
> Eventually, in both the case where using a treepanel or not, a GeoExt 
> callback on "afterlayout" results in a
> call to OpenLayers Map Render.
> In render you have:
> 
>         this.div.appendChild(this.viewPortDiv);
> 
> In the application without treepanel, this results in the the GMap2 div 
> (a child of viewPortDiv) taking on the
> same client width and hieght as div. When you bind mappanel to a 
> treepanel however, the GMap2 div remains with a client height and width 
> of zero. viewPortDiv however does change to fit the parent div.
> 
> Now I just dont know enough about DOM to understand what difference I 
> should be looking for in viewPortDiv and its children that can allow 
> such a thing to happen. At first glance, viewPortDiv and the child GMap2 
> div look the same but then there are a lot of properties. Can anyone 
> give me some hints please?
> 
> 
> 
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