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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Waette)
- Subject: Re: How to distinguish between Click and Double-Click?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.194809.19535@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Dec4.162103.7837@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:48:09 GMT
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- In <1992Dec4.162103.7837@news.tu-graz.ac.at> mwelser@iaik.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Welser) writes:
-
- >The "cheat" of starting action A in both cases and then resort to action B
- >if it turns out that there is a doubleclick does not seem to be acceptable,
- >as it would lead to (at least) some popping up and disappearing of a
- >dialog box.
-
- I know this is an old article, but the user interface
- of doing this would be horrendous!
-
- Double-clicking is ALWAYS an extension of single-clicking;
- this is not only for programmatical reasons but for users
- well-being too. If you want to distinguish between different
- kinds of clicks, use the right & left button, or use the
- shift/alt/control keys creatively :-)
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
-
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