WPF: Button single click + double click issue

If you set the RoutedEvent‘s e.Handled to true after handling the MouseDoubleClick event then it will not call the Click Event the second time after the MouseDoubleClick.

There’s a recent post which touches on having different behaviors for SingleClick and DoubleClick which may be useful.

However, if you are sure you want separate behaviors and want/need to block the first Click as well as the second Click, you can use the DispatcherTimer like you were.

private static DispatcherTimer myClickWaitTimer = 
    new DispatcherTimer(
        new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 1), 
        DispatcherPriority.Background, 
        mouseWaitTimer_Tick, 
        Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher);

private void Button_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    // Stop the timer from ticking.
    myClickWaitTimer.Stop();

    Trace.WriteLine("Double Click");
    e.Handled = true;
}

private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    myClickWaitTimer.Start();
}

private static void mouseWaitTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    myClickWaitTimer.Stop();

    // Handle Single Click Actions
    Trace.WriteLine("Single Click");
}

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