From e9ffef03c7442b165c8cd4dd3bd668485242d359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde@opengeo.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:33:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] create APIMethod for obtaining the view port, this is needed
 by GeoExt to append the map panel items there so that they don't interfere
 with the zoombox for example

---
 lib/OpenLayers/Map.js | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Map.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Map.js
index b8e976851c..f96ac6f834 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Map.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Map.js
@@ -612,6 +612,17 @@ OpenLayers.Map = OpenLayers.Class({
             }
         }
     },
+
+    /** 
+     * APIMethod: getViewport
+     * Get the DOMElement representing the view port.
+     *
+     * Returns:
+     * {DOMElement}
+     */
+    getViewport: function() {
+        return this.viewPortDiv;
+    },
     
     /**
      * APIMethod: render