JQuery: has a button been pressed again within so many milliseconds..

Question

Hi,

I'm writing a web application that decodes Morse Code that is tapped in using mouse button.

I originally did a proof of concept using conventional JavaScript, but now I'm redoing it using jQuery.

Is there a clever way with jQuery to tell if a button has been pressed again within so many milliseconds, or not - and run some jQuery code if the button was NOT pressed again.

I've been going over the jQuery API and I'm not seeing a clever way of doing this....

Any ideas...

Derek

Answer 1

I suspect you'll need to monitor the buttons' click events and do the timing yourself.

Answer 2

To your point about the button NOT being pressed again within so many milliseconds, you'll need to use setTimeout() and clearTimeout(), keeping track of the targets yourself as theracoonbear said. You were probably doing it this way in your POC, and JQuery doesn't have this in the API (that I've seen), so just refactor where you can.