I have a map overlay that I want to remove and show a different overlay. I have tried to deactivate the first, however I keep ending up with both overlays showing simultaneously. Does anyone know how to remove or hide an overlay in order show another? Both overlays consist of several shapes, though not the same number, so just changing the coordinates won't work.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Try using overlayController.getOverlays() to get a list of the overlays. Then deactivate.

Perhaps the getOverlays() returns a pointer to the overlay being used which would make deactivate() work.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks for the response.

I tried this:

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Where shapeOneIndex is set when the shapeOne overlay is added to the overlay controller.

However, this doesn't work, I get the same result. Did you mean to iterate through the overlays until I get to the one I want, rather than referring to it by its ordinal number?

Thanks again for the help.

hmm...
What you tried is what I was thinking would work. Does calling the deactivate all function clear the overlay? I realize that is not what you want to do but it is a start to understanding the problem.

Ive been fooling around with overlays lately. If i find anything useful, i will post it here.

-danny

I have found a rather inelegant solution. First clear all of the overlays with overlayController.clear, then re-add all of the overlays and activate them. This isn't a very good solution if you only want to change one overlay and leave the remaining ones the same. You will still have to reload all of them.

I anyone has a better solution, please post. I don't have too many overlays so it isn't too bad of a speed hit, but if someone had a lot of them, it could add up.

Thanks again for your help bluefloyd8.