The oncontextmenu event isnt fired when im in 3d mode

I've noticed that displaying a pushpin or route in the 3d mode can take a long time. My oncontextmenu event method does some AJAX calls then plots the point on the map and everything works fine except the pushpin can take about a minute to load.

Ruprect8696 at 2007-9-4 >

Yep; you have to build a shim for everything. It is pretty easy to build a single function called AddShim() that adds a shim for any element you create.

CalebT-MSFT at 2007-9-4 >

The issue is it you need set the background of an iframe to transparent.

From Romania -

You have to resolve 2 (two) things:

First, in the main page, where you have the <iframe> tag, add this simple attribute:

allowtransparency="true"

Example:

<iframe name="info" src="main.html" width="561" height="479" scrolling="auto" align="top" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0" allowtransparency="true">
// some code for browsers who are not able to view the <iframe> tag
</iframe>

Second, you have to put the transparency to the pages that should load into the <iframe>, with CSS like this:

<style type="text/css">
<!-- BODY {background:none transparent;}-->
</style>

Now how do we go about this with the shim in VE?

the first bit is easy but i can't work out how to set the body of the shim....

var s = document.createElement("iframe");
s.id = sid;
s.frameBorder = "0";
s.style.position = "absolute";
s.style.zIndex = "1"; s.style.top = el.offsetTop;
s.style.left = el.offsetLeft;
s.width = el.offsetWidth;
s.height = el.offsetHeight;
s.allowtransparency = "true";
s.scrolling="no";
s.className="Shim";
el.shimElement = s;
el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el);

then in css tring:

.Shim BODY {background: none transparent;}

With no luck so far

John.

SoulSolutions at 2007-9-4 >

Yep... that's the problem we're facing. We were able to figure out transparent iframes only to see the 2D map as the background instead of the 3D map as expected.

smiller at 2007-9-4 >

So rectangular windows for now.

In the future maybe there will be a way to generate our toolbars within the 3D environment?

John.

SoulSolutions at 2007-9-4 >