Just to wrap up this thread for anyone else who finds it and is looking for relevant information, I was able to achieve the intended goal by overriding showContextMenu() and either passing the call up to the super class or dropping the call on the floor. So when my app detects a double or triple tap in advance of the call to showContextMenu(), I simply ignore the call and proceed with the alternate behavior instead.
...and to wrap up the philosophical argument that this thread unintentionally flared, I really don't see why double or triple tap long presses should be expected to exhibit redundant behavior with that of single tap long presses. The scenario is perfectly analogous to single, double, and triple taps (sans long press), or mouse- clicks. Clearly, no one expects double taps to exhibit behavior redundant with single taps. If that were the case, double tap support would never have been programmed into the API in the first place (and let's be honest with ourselves, double-mouse-clicks have been a common UI for 25 years!). Triple clicks and triple taps, I concede, are a bit more contentious in that they are not particularly wide-spread, but they are not unheard of either and I felt entitled to offer such support to my app's power users who might benefit from the added flexibility and ease of use. Mark, I have always appreciated your input and I'm sorry my original question offended you. It was technical, not philosophical, and I am always weary of attempts to thread-jack an original question because threads rarely recover and the original question generally goes unanswered as a consequence. I would have been more than happy to politely debate the philosophical and design issues with you, but such was a tangent from the purely technical question I was asking and I saw no reason to confuse the two topics; I just wanted an answer to my question (and perhaps faith that I was not running afoul of wise design specs even if I had not fully qualified the scenario pertaining to my question). I hope you aren't too offended by all of this. Best of luck. Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
