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How can mouseDoubleDown ignore mouseDown?
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:22 pm
by gyroscope
Hi, another "polling the mouse" question, I guess...
If I have a button with the script
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on mouseDown
beep
end mouseDown
on mouseDoubleDown
answer "double"
end mouseDoubleDown
the mouseDoubleDown doesn't block the mouseDown message. Is there a way to do this please?
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:07 pm
by Janschenkel
How would you expect the engine to predict whether the user is going for a single- or douible-click? You'll have to figure out some sort of shielding.
Here's a quick and dirty idea:
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local sWasDoubleClicked
on mouseDown
put false into sWasDoubleClicked
put the doubleClickInterval + 10 into tInterval
send "singleMouseDown" to me in tInterval milliseconds
end mouseDown
on mouseDoubleDown
put true into sWasDoubleClicked
-- do your double down thing here
answer "Double!"
end mouseDoubleDown
on singleMouseDown
if sWasDoubleClicked then exit singleMouseDown
-- do your single down thing here
beep
end singleMouseDown
Hope this helped,
Jan Schenkel.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:06 pm
by gyroscope
Excellent Jan, thank you! It works a treat.
I tried for two hours yesterday to find a solution; the closest I came to it was to use mouseStillDown in tandem with mouseDoubleClick...your script does the job perfectly.