[BUG][OSX][FIX?] Event delays

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Feb 13 00:37:13 UTC 2001


Henrik Gedenryd <Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se> is widely believed to have written:

> Marcel Weiher wrote:
> 
> > I suggest that the fix to double-click detection that was proposed
> > on this list earlier should be implemented (and will try it myself
> > now in order to see what happens):  send a #click: after the first
> > mouseUp event, and make sure that the few existing #doubleClick:
> > clients can deal with receiving a click before the double-click.
> 
> This is actually how a double click should always be designed. It should
> always be signalled as a click event followed by a double click event, and
> all uses of double click should be natural extensions of a single click.
> E.g. single click selects object, double click performs most frequent action
> on it.
Exactly! There might even be a neat way to use the double-click events
that many OS's provide, usurping the image's spending time on working it
out.

tim

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