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mouseDoubleClick

mouseDoubleClick

Handler:

HyperCard sends this message to a button, field, or card after the mouse is clicked twice at the same place. When the message is sent, it's the only one sent during the second click; there's no mouseDown, mouseStillDown, or mouseUp message sent after the first mouseUp.

For HyperCard to send this message, the following conditions must all be true:

(a) The downstroke of a second click follows the downstroke of a previous click within the double-click speed set in the Mouse control panel; and (b) the second click occurs within four pixels of the first; and

(c) the second click occurs within the same object as the first.

If the user clicks repeatedly at the same location faster than the double-click speed set in the Mouse control panel, HyperCard treats each odd-numbered click as a first click and each even-numbered click as a second click.

Related Topics

• mouseClick
• mouseDown
• mouseStillDown
• mouseUp

Placeholders

statements

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