Javascript questions which don't deserve their own thread.

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
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I have a problem with the Google Maps API and displaying KML files. The file is valid KML and displays fine if I put the URL into maps.google.com, however, if I go like this on my own site:

code:

map.clearOverlays();
map.addOverlay(GGeoXml("http://domain/path/to/file.kml"));

Nothing shows on the map. If I try to run the functions in Safari's Inspector console, I get:

code:

> map.addOverlay(GGeoXml("http://domain/path/to/file.kml"));
  null
  TypeError: Result of expression 'e.lk' [undefined] is not a function.

e.lk is in Google's mod_kml_api.js file. Anyone have experience with this?

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
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Supervillin posted:

should be
code:
map.addOverlay(new GGeoXml("http://domain/path/to/file.kml"));
GGeoXml is a constructor, you have to use new.

Geez, I looked at that drat thing so long I went blind. Thanks, it works as advertised now

# ¿ Jul 24, 2009 15:58

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
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I'm dynamically adding a .js file to the header of a page, the .js file is out of my control so I cannot change it.

The last thing it does is register an event listener like so:

code:

window.addEventListener("load", initializationStuff, false);

Since the window is already loaded, the event doesn't fire, but I want it to. I've tried

code:

var event = document.createEvent(); 
event.initEvent('load'); 
document.dispatchEvent(event);

but that gave me a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR.

Am I doing it wrong? I tried googling a bit and there doesn't seem to be a way in DOM to check if any events are registered, so I cannot check if it's actually set up are not, is that correct?

edit: NM I'm retarded at javascript. I figured it out (it should be createEvent("HTMLEvents"))

Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Aug 8, 2009

# ¿ Aug 7, 2009 22:53

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
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Mercator posted:

Why not call initializationStuff yourself? No need to muck about with events because the DOM has already been initialized.

I tried but it said undefined, probably cause it's a function reference that gets passed to the event handler. The js file is weird like that, the whole thing is wrapped in an unnamed function as well.

Anyway, this is what I was working on, a greasemonkey script that makes youtube no longer require flash:

http://userscripts.org/topics/32424

If someone wants to run with it, go ahead.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2009 11:22

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