How can I make sure a button is not clicked twice? I would need a similar behavior to temporarily disabling a button in a web form to prevent sending a post twice.
If you have a button named myButton you could put this in the Code pane of the Properties panel and it will disable the button for 5 seconds:
changeobject "myButton", "Disabled","1"
starttimer "buttonDelay",
"code", {changeobject "myButton", "Disabled","0"},
"repeat",1,"next",supernow()+5
You can name the button as you like and change the 5 second delay to anything that works for your situation.
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In the code for the button, start with this:
if doubleclick()
return
endif
...
... rest of code to be triggered by single click
...
Or, you can use info("modifiers") contains "double"
Gary’s suggestion is quite clever. However, one problem would occur if during the 5 second delay another window is brought to the front. If that happens, the button will wind up stuck in a disabled state.
If you wanted to disable a button for 5 seconds, this might be a more reliable way to do it:
if catcherror(supernow(), myButtonClickTime)>supernow()-5
return // ignore clicks within 5 seconds
endif
letfileglobal myButtonClickTime = supernow()
....
... rest of code to be triggered by normal click
...