sometimes holding down the spinner button doesn't work

[bill]

In ​http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/tests/widget/test_Spinner.html (on IE) I press the down arrow twice, and then quickly hold down the down arrow.

1. click
2. click
3. hold down

Holding down the arrow has no effect; the <input> doesn't change value typematically.

It turns out to be that (2) and (3) are interpreted as a double-click (I think). The problem only happense when (2) and (3) happen close together. Not sure if this is possible to fix but I guess it would be nice.

[Douglas Hays]

I researched this and there doesn't appear to be any workaround. IE always eats the mousedown that occurs very soon after a mouseup, so there's no event to trigger the typematic sequence. I lowered the priority to reflect no activity is expected on this trac ticket in the near future, but the severity remains as normal.

[Sam Foster]

Yeah, its trying to fire a dblclick event. If you try this in firebug(lite) in IE, on the test_Spinner.html page:

dojo.connect(dijit.byId("integerspinner1").downArrowNode, "onmousedown", function(evt) { console.log("mousedown on down arrow") });

dojo.connect(dijit.byId("integerspinner1").downArrowNode, "ondblclick", function(evt) { console.log("dblclick on down arrow") });

You see a click followed shortly by a click-and-hold yields one mousedown event, no typematic value change, and when you release (mouseup) you see "dblclick on down arrow". I'm not sure there's a (not totally hacky) way around this - the event simply isnt fired. Maybe someone else has ideas?

[bill]

OK, looks like this is too hard to fix. Marking as wontfix for now.