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- From: np2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nathaniel Pryce)
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- Subject: Re: How to distinguish between Click and Double-Click?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:17:46 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <1992Dec18.131216.3058@cs.wayne.edu>, pbh@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Patrick B. Haggood) writes:
- |> Borland's OWL includes two Windows messages; WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK AND
- |> WM_RBUTTONDBLCLK. See the OWL manual p.42 or any of a bunch of
- |> third party books on OWL.
-
- To have double click messages sent to a window, you must set the correct
- class style: CS_DBLCLICK I think, but I'm not sure of the exact name.
-
- Windows deals with double clicks by sending four messages to the window:
- WM_LBUTTONDOWN, WM_LBUTTONUP, WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK & WM_LBUTTONUP. (for the
- left mouse button, for instance.) When the program receives the
- WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK message, must handle the fact that the previous two messages
- were part of the double click, as is the next button-up message. The latter
- can be handles with a boolean flag.
-
- The former is a little harder. I used double clicks to end the drawing of
- a multi-point line in an object-oriented drawing package (actually a garden
- designer). Every button up message added a point to the line, unless the last
- message processed was a double-click. When I received a double click message,
- I knew I had collected all the points and so processed them. Therefore I didn't
- need to deal with/remember the previous two button-down/button-up messages,
- since the double-click was an extension of a single-click; ie: single-click =
- "new point", double-click = "last point".
-
- I have found that in practise, most uses of double clicks are like this.
- Anything else is complicated to write and nasty to use.
-
-
-
- |> --
- |> Patrick B. Haggood Wayne State University
- |> "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net," | DoD #1966
- |> Matthew 13:47 | pbh@prjup.uucp
- --
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