The first new sample demonstrates two things that allot of people seem to strugle with. First off, using a map within a border layout, which when you get down too it is dead simple, but causes much frustration and confusion if you happen to do it incorrectly. The second thing is using a DataView (could be a grid, tree, etc) to interact with the map by giving a list of points to recenter the map on. Recentering is accomplished by clicking on an item in the DataView list, this triggers a click event in the DataView which then pulls the lat/lng from the DataStore and tells the map to center on it.

The next example is also a new one, demonstrating how to use a form to interact with the map. A basic dialog has been created with a form in it, this dialog is opened from the tool section of the window in the recenter-map example. From this form you can enter in either a lat/lng or a street address, and the data entered is used to manipulate the map. Its a handy and fun little example.

This last one was something I did on a whim, because I noticed these map windows being used all around the world I thought it would be a good idea to follow the standards used by ExtJS and localize the text contained within the code. When I set in to do this, I assumed I could pull localized text messages from Google for the error numbers Google provided – go figure, their API actually provides no text at all for the error codes they return. I ended up copying the error text from the Google API reference/docs into my code, which was annoying, but I didn’t see any other options.

Thats it for now, enjoy the map panel updates!

http://code.google.com/p/ext-ux-gmappanel/source/detail?r=17