Prevent second click

[Alan Neilsen]

Within my program, users click on thumbnail icons to open audios. This 
creates puppet sprites and takes the play-head to a different frame where 
an audio begins playing automatically and a transcript, play, rewind, 
pause, ffwd and "Close Audio" buttons are available. On clicking the "Close 
Audio" button, the puppet sprites are set to false and the play-head 
returns to the frame it had been at when the thumbnail was originally 
clicked (gReturnFrame). The problem is that one of the thumbnail icons is 
positioned in roughly the same place as the "Close Audio" button (neither 
can be moved), and if the user happens to double-click the "Close Audio" 
button, the second click automatically registers on the thumbnail icon at 
the return frame and that audio starts playing.

I thought I could use "the lastClick" to check if less than (say) half a 
second has passed since the last click, but this does not seem to work. I 
checked what was happening by attaching the code "put the lastClick" to the 
thumbnails icon, but even if I wait more than 10 seconds between clicks, 
the message window invariably gives me a spurious value for "the lastClick" 
which never seems to exceed about 12, although according to Director Help, 
after a 10 second delay, this should return a value of at least 600. I 
therefore cannot use this to test the elapsed time between clicks.

Is there an easy way to prevent the second click from registering on the 
thumbnail icon?

Alan

Alan Neilsen
Multimedia Developer
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