able to obtain double click time from actionscript?

BSpero - yes that is what I'm currently doing. And the question is how long to set that timer for, which is why I was wondering if I could access the same time value that Flash is using.

Andrei1 - if that is what Flash is doing, that's not what I observed. I observed that the single click listener would always fire no matter what.

jigidyjim,
I get what you're saying. You could add a timeOut object on the item that lasts for, say .5 seconds. If the object recieved a double click event, then the first timeout would be cleared, and another action would immediately be fired. You probably already have this solution and really just wanted a way to grab the timing from the system, but at any rate...

var clickTimeout

with (mcButton) {
doubleClickEnabled = true;
addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK,doubleClick);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,singleClick);
}

function doubleClick(e:Event):void {
clearTimeout(clickTimeout);
trace("double click");
}
//
function singleClick(e:Event):void {
clearTimeout(clickTimeout);
clickTimeout = setTimeout(showSingleClick,500);
}
//
function showSingleClick(){
trace("single click");
}

Sorry, I didn't explain totally correctly. I can use the double click mechanism, but the issue is that I need to know whether or not to fire off the single click event when it is received from the first click.

If I decide to wait until I do or do not receive a double click event, the issue then is how long do I need to wait? If I receive a double click it's easy - i know then not use the initial click event I received. But I don't receive a double click, then without knowing how long i need to wait, i never know if one is coming or not.

Sure - thanks for the help.

I have a sprite that, if clicked on once, has one effect, and if double clicked, has a different effect.

The idea is that only one effect should play, not both. So if the user clicks the sprite, a delay needs to happen before the sprite decides whether or not to activate the single-click effect, or the double-click effect.

The only way I've figured out how to do this is to detect single clicks, and queue them up. When a click happens, I start a timer. If the timer expires without a click, then I fire off the single click event. If a second click happens before the timer expires, I fire off the double click event.

So in this method, I'm not using the built in double click mechanism at all.

If there were a way to accomplish this same task while still using the normal Flash DOUBLE_CLICK, I'd love to know how that is done.

How can you calculate it?

The whole point is that i can't use the built in flash double-click mechanism, because I need to have a mechanism that doesn't dispatch single-clicks until it knows whether or not a double click has occurred. in order to do this, I need to put a timer on when a single-click should expire.

The only way I see to calculate it is to have a user go through a configuration screen, which isn't the nicest user experience.

I am pretty sure that Flash uses the system double click time that the user has set in their OS control panel. I don't know of a way to extract this via Flash.

For various reasons, I'm having to implement my own double click detection system. Instead of just hardcoding some double click value (like 300ms), I was hoping to use the exact same value that Flash is using, which is why I was wondering if it is possible to retreive that value from Flash.

You can calculate time difference between CLICK and DOUBLE_CLICK events on the same object (in other words - you need two listeners whose timing is recorded and then compared).

DOUBLE_CLICK is essentially two events in a sequence: 1st - CLICK, second - DOUBLE_CLICK.