I'd like to have Map Tips display when a user hovers over, or clicks on, a feature in my Flex Application.
Would I do this in the authoring stage or is there code I write into my Flex application?
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Sign up to join this communityI'd like to have Map Tips display when a user hovers over, or clicks on, a feature in my Flex Application.
Would I do this in the authoring stage or is there code I write into my Flex application?
Searching for "map tip" on Esri's Flex API site yielded these results:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=MapTips
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=InfoWindowRollOverSample
Unlike in the Google api, tooltips are not handled by the API. A good introduction to tooltips in Flex can be found here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=tooltips_4.html
And functions that encapsulate this and can be applied to map features, here: