Re: Tk event bindings - single vs. double click

[arden]

in reply to Tk event bindings - single vs. double click

I'm not sure if there's an easy way to tell if a it's a double-click within the sub-routine (aside from forcing one sleep of a second and checking if the sub is called again at the end of that second).

However, according to the Perl Cookbook 1st edition, recipe 15.19, you can bind a subroutine to a <Double-Button> like this:

# permit viewing by binding double-click
$l->bind( '<Double-Button>'     => \&view );

I haven't any experience with it though. Chapter 14 of Learning Perl/Tk mentions it as <Double-Button-1> though. Of course, Learning Perl/Tk is no longer in print, so you'd have to buy it second-hand. You might also wish to take a look at the second edition of the Perl Cookbook, as it might have more details. Give these a try and let us know what works/doesn't work. . .

- - arden.

[Ven'Tatsu]

Since Perl is not (usualy) multi-threading (and when it is Tk is not thread safe), sleeping will delay TK's processing of events, meaning that you still can't see that there is a double click from inside a sub called from the single click event.
Now that I think of it though, $mw->update() should let Tk notice the double click, but I don't know how you would catch that from inside the sub, and I would think it would beg for odd timing issues to crop up.