how do I enable double click in action script? - actionscript-3

Question

I tried to do this :
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK,showEditPopup);
but it is not working.
It works fine for
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,showEditPopup);
So, I guess I have to enable double click first. Need help on it.

Answer 1

You have to enable double click for your panel before by doing this :
panel.doubleClickEnabled=true;
And then you can do :
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK,showEditPopup);

Answer 2

I had this problem this morning trying to add a double click to my game.
This is what i found out.
First of all you gotta enable doubleclick like this:
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK,showEditPopup);
You can also add the singe CLICK on the same function to prevent click to happen twice when double clicking, like this:
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,showEditPopup);
Then this would be the function, interacting with both but 1 at a time:
function showEditPopup(e:MouseEvent) {
if (e.type == "click") {
//single click
} else if (e.type == "doubleClick") {
//double click
}
}
Now there is 2 problem that come up. First you gotta enable double click like this before the listener:
panel.enableDoubleClick = true;
Then the worse, if the display object is binded to another display object, which have a mouse event, you have to disable those event for the children so the double click work. Like this:
panel.mouseChildren = false;
That was bad for me because this is what i was doing.
Created a card with skills, skills had mouseevent.move_over to show a tooltip. But then i wanted to double click the card to place it/remove it from the deck. But it was not working because the skills, attached to that movieclip, had mouseevent in them. So i had to disable them and find another way to do it. Because tooltip wasnt showing with that mousechildren set to false and i had no choice to have this to bypass those event.
And this is why the timer solution seem a better idea indeed.You can go as up as 1 second for the wait time of a double click. It won't affect people and will fit even the slowest dude ;)