Question

I have written a game in java script and while it works, it is slow responding to multiple clicks. Below is a very simplified version of the code that I am using to handle clicks and it is still fails to respond to a second click of 2 if you don’t wait long enough. Is this something that I need to just accept or is there a faster way to be ready for the next click?

BTW, I attach this function using AddEvent from the quirksmode recoding contest.

var selected = false;
var z = null;
function handleClicks(evt) {
    evt = (evt)?evt:((window.event)?window.event:null);
    if (selected) {
        z.innerHTML = '<div class="rowbox a">a</div>';
        selected = false;
    } else {
        z.innerHTML = '<div class="rowbox selecteda">a</div>';
        selected = true;
    }
}

The live code may be seen at http://www.omega-link.com/index.php?content=testgame

Answer 1

I think your problem is that the 2nd click is registering as a dblclick event, not as a click event. The change is happening quickly, but the 2nd click is ignored unless you wait. I would suggest changing to either the mousedown or mouseup event.