Kill the MouseEven.CLICK event when mouse is held down?

Question

I have been studying games on Facebook and am trying to emulate mouse event handling. For example in ChefVille you can click on objects and drag them around. But if you hold the mouse down you pan the entire game environment and when you release the mouse button a click is NOT registered on the object below the mouse. In my tinkering the CLICK event is triggered on the release of the mouse button no matter how long I keep the button depressed. How do I keep the CLICK event from firing if the mouse is held down for some period of time?

Answer 1

I don't know that you can cancel a CLICK event in the middle of it happening (CLICK = MOUSE_DOWN followed by MOUSE_UP), but you can trigger a Timer on the MOUSE_DOWN event and use its event handler to set a boolean variable that your CLICK event handler function can make use of to decide whether or not to process a CLICK event.