Question

i’m currently having trouble to add dynamicly a marquer on my mapview, certainly due to my lack in java knowledge 🙁

which parameter should i give to my canvas to make this work?
when i fee the coordinates, the map goes where i want but i have no maker

((Button)findViewById(R.id.goMap)).setOnClickListener(
                      new OnClickListener() {
                     @Override
                     public void onClick(View v) {



                            mapView.invalidate();
                        // On récupère notre EditText
                         EditText UserName = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.getLon));
                         EditText Password = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.getLat));

                         // On garde la chaîne de caractères
                          _lat = UserName.getText().toString();
                          _long = Password.getText().toString();

                         latTest =  Double.parseDouble(_lat)* 1E6;
                         longTest =  Double.parseDouble(_long)* 1E6;

                         p3 = new GeoPoint(
                                    (int) (latTest ), 
                                  (int) (longTest ));

                          //---add the marker---
                          Bitmap bmp3 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
                               getResources(), R.drawable.maps_position_marker); 
                          Canvas canvas= new Canvas();
                           canvas.drawBitmap(bmp3, screenP3ts.x-15, screenP3ts.y-30, null);


                         mapView.getProjection().toPixels(p3, screenP3ts);
                            mapController.animateTo(p3);
                            mapController.setCenter(p3);

                         Toast.makeText(TheMap.this, "lat=" + latTest + " et " + "long= " + longTest, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


                         }
                         });

in my intial code, the overlay which has all good parametres it needs, is loaded in the onCreate () methode and it works fine but as i mentioned i can’t figure out how to add the marker in the onclick () methode. I know what i did is wrong but i don’t know how to do 🙁

thx in advance

Answer 1

You are drawing to the canvas using screenP3ts before you actually transform the lat / lon into screen coordinates. You need this:

Bitmap bmp3 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
        getResources(), R.drawable.maps_position_marker); 
Canvas canvas= new Canvas();

mapView.getProjection().toPixels(p3, screenP3ts);
canvas.drawBitmap(bmp3, screenP3ts.x-15, screenP3ts.y-30, null);