Welcome to the second part of the series “Working with Yahoo! Maps.” As the title clearly suggests, this series provides you with all the elements that you will need to start utilizing the Yahoo! Maps Ajax-based framework. It complements theoretical explanations with numerous code samples. This article will discuss how to incorporate zoom controls into an existing Yahoo! Map.
Adding Zoom Controls to Yahoo! Maps - Using a short zoom control with Yahoo! Maps (Page 4 of 4 )
As I stated in the previous section, it’s also feasible to incorporate a “short” zoom control into an existing Yahoo! Map by using another method of the handy “YMap()” JavaScript class, called “addShortZoom().”
This method supports practically the same implementation as its counterpart “long” and can be seen in action in the following hands-on example:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Example on building a YAHOO! Map with short zoom control</title>
<h1>Example on building a YAHOO! Map with short zoom control</h1>
<div id="mapcontainer"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Create a new map object
var map=new YMap(document.getElementById('mapcontainer'));
// Add type controls to the map
map.addTypeControl();
// Add short zoom control to the map
map.addZoomShort();
// Set map type to YAHOO_MAP_SAT
map.setMapType(YAHOO_MAP_SAT);
// Display the map centered on the selected location
map.drawZoomAndCenter("Los Angeles",3);
</script>
</body>
</html>
As you can see, displaying a “short” zoom control on a selected Yahoo! Map is only a question of calling the appropriate JavaScript method of the pertinent “YMap” class. In this case, the mentioned control is added before specifying the type of map that should be constructed. Pretty simple to grasp, isn’t it?
In addition, you may want to look at the following screen shot, which shows the visual appearance of the previously mentioned zoom control:
As shown in the above image, the short zoom control is composed basically of two small arrows for zooming in and out on the targeted Yahoo! Map. Of course, it’s up to you to decide what zoom control best suits your needs, according to the specific requirements of the web application that will use these interactive maps.
Final thoughts
That’s all for now. In this second part of the series, I demonstrated how to incorporate two different zoom controls into an existing Yahoo! Map, making it much more functional and usable.
However, I’m only scratching the surface when it comes to exploring the numerous features packaged with the Yahoo! Map Ajax framework. Thus, in the next article, you’ll learn how to incorporate some useful pan controls into a given map, providing it with the capacity to scroll all over a selected geographical location.
Now that you’re aware of the topics that will be discussed in the upcoming article of this series, you won't want to miss it!
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