How can I prevent a "quick" mouse click

Ignition
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I’m designing for a touch screen and want to use the mouse pressed and mouse released events. I only want the event scripts to run if the mouse has been pressed for at least 250 ms. Is there a way to count the time a mouse button has been held down? Also, how can I pass a variable from the mousePressed event to the the mouseRelease event.

thanks for any help.

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You can retrieve the current time with system.date.now() in mousePressed and place it in a client property, then retrieve that in mouseReleased to check the duration. Something like this, mousePressed:

event.source.putClientProperty('pressTS', system.date.now())

Then in mouseReleased:

pressTS = event.source.getClientProperty('pressTS')
if pressTS and (system.date.now().time - pressTS.time) > 250:
   # do something
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Hello, it is interesting, and I think useful. I am beginner for the scripting. I try to found in some more information about functions putClientProperty and getClientProperty on webpage docs.inductiveautomation.com, but I didn’t found the description of these functions.
Please can send link where the functions are described.

4

These are core methods of Java Swing JComponents. Java Swing is the basis for Ignition’s GUI.

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Phil, thanks so much!

That worked great.

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Thank you. :slight_smile: