Distinguishing simple and double clicks

[Eric Chatonet]

Thanks David: I was afraid of ;-)

Le 23 sept. 08 à 15:49, David Bovill a écrit :

> That's what I do. Logically there is no way out of delaying the  
> mouseUp
> until after the the mouseDoubleUp. I think you can improve it for  
> machines
> of different speeds and look at things like the doubleclickinterval  
> - but I
> never really got it working / sound it to be needed except on very old
> machines?
>
> 2008/9/23 Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com>
>
>> Bonjour à tous,
>>
>> I just want to make something that was easy with HC: e.g. allow  
>> the user to
>> use simple and double clicks on the same button but with different  
>> actions.
>> MouseUp is always sent by the engine first then mouseDoubleUp is  
>> sent if
>> appropriate.
>>
>> So the question is how to not execute a mouseUp handler if it is  
>> just the
>> first click of a double click?
>> Here is a code that allows this but:
>> . It sounds a bit complicated ;-)
>> . It delays mouseUp action by 500 millseconds :-(
>>
>> Any better idea?
>>
>> local sDoubleClick
>> ---------------------
>> on mouseUp
>>  send "DoMouseUp" to me in 500 milliseconds
>> end mouseUp
>> ---------------------
>> on mouseDoubleUp
>>  put true into sDoubleClick
>>  DoMouseDoubleUp --
>>  send "ResetScriptVar" to me in 500 milliseconds
>> end mouseDoubleUp
>> ---------------------
>> on DoMouseUp
>>  if sDoubleClick then exit DoMouseUp
>>  put "Simple Click"
>> end DoMouseUp
>> ---------------------
>> on DoMouseDoubleUp
>>  put "Double Click"
>> end DoMouseDoubleUp
>> ---------------------
>> on ResetScriptVar
>>  put false into sDoubleClick
>> end ResetScriptVar

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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