control popup location

Question

Hi,

I am adding popups to my application and followed the sample

http://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/sandbox/sandbox.html?sample=popup_chart

In that sample, when you click on a location close to the edge of the map, it puts the popup automatically on the inside.  In my case, it does not do that properly, and sometimes, the popup is outside the map and therefore gets partially cut.  This happens mostly when I click on the right side of the map.  It put the popup to the right of where I clicked instead of to the left as expected.  Any idea what is causing this behavior?

Thanks,

Paul

evtguy · Answer

Yes- I think you could do this. In the other thread I linked, there was a particular line:

map.infoWindow.show(evt.screenPoint, esri.dijit.InfoWindow.ANCHOR_UPPERRIGHT);

That specifies where the infoWindow should appear (map location + relative location based on map location).

In order to always show the infoWindow in the lower left corner, you would simply need to calculate what the map coordinate is for the lower left corner of the map and pass that as the first parameter in the code above. I haven't tried this, though.

PaulHuppé · Answer

If this InfoWindow always misbehaves, is there a way to always display it in the same location, i.e.: in the lower left corner say?

evtguy · Answer

I think this is just default behavior from the API, which is unfortunate. This has been happening to folks for years (myself included). I thought that the API team had plans on trying to address this but they haven't so far.

Here's an old thread which offers a solution that worked for some folks. It didn't for me.