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minus (me-minus) wrote : Re: [Bug 289613] Re: Buttons doesn't register clicks if held to long,

Nice!

I'll test the next release then.

minus, looking forward to check out the new world.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Erik Hjortsberg
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> The cause of this was that we were listening to the wrong button element
> event. It's now fixed.
>
> ** Changed in: ember
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
> Target: None => 0.5.6
>
> --
> Buttons doesn't register clicks if held to long,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289613
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>
> Status in The Worldforge Ember client: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> When clicking a button, if the click happens fast it's registered, but if it's slow (i.e. the left mouse button is held down for a while) it doesn't register.
>
> The way button clicking works in CEGUI is that we listen for the mouse up event (instead of the mouse down). This is the standard for pretty much all UI systems. There however seems to be a bug, perhaps in CEGUI itself, which makes it not registering the mouse button up event if too much time has passed since the mouse down event.
> We'll have to investigate.
>