How to get lat/lon of a mouse click with Bing Maps AJAX Control v7

Question

I am using th newest version of the API (v7), and would like to add a pushpin on mouse-click ...

var mapSettings = {
    \'credentials\': \'myCredentials\',
             


        

Answer 1

Ok, nailed it. Here's the bit of code that you're interested in:

if (e.targetType == "map") {
  var point = new Microsoft.Maps.Point(e.getX(), e.getY());
  var loc = e.target.tryPixelToLocation(point);
  var location = new Microsoft.Maps.Location(loc.latitude, loc.longitude);
  ......
}

e.target.getLocation() only works when the target is a pushpin, infobox, etc. The click on the actual map is different.