{"id":22623,"date":"2008-04-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/23\/the-double-click-time-tells-the-window-manager-how-good-your-reflexes-are\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:00:00","slug":"the-double-click-time-tells-the-window-manager-how-good-your-reflexes-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080423-00\/?p=22623","title":{"rendered":"The double-click time tells the window manager how good your reflexes are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time. It&#8217;s used as the basis for many user interface time values that don&#8217;t have their own custom setting. Here are just a few examples, along with the values you get if you leave the double-click time at its default of 500ms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The     <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms650561.aspx\">     default tooltip timeouts<\/a> are based on the double-click time.     (Initial: 0.5s, autopop: 5s, reshow: 0.1s.) <\/li>\n<li>Incremental searching in list boxes resets after 4 times the double     click time (2s). <\/li>\n<li>When you click and hold over a scroll bar arrow,     autorepeat begins after 4\/5 of the double-click time has elapsed (.4s),     and autorepeat occurs at     one tenth of the double-click time (0.05s = 20 repeats per second). <\/li>\n<li>The menu speed used to be 4\/5 of the double click speed (0.4s),     but now it has its own setting (<code>SPI_SETMENUSHOWDELAY<\/code>). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> If you go into the mouse control panel and speed up your double-click speed, then you&#8217;ll find that other user interface operations tend to speed up as well. The double-click time is a sort of barometer for how good the user&#8217;s reaction time is. If you set it too low, you may find that things just happen too fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time. It&#8217;s used as the basis for many user interface time values that don&#8217;t have their own custom setting. Here are just a few examples, along with the values you get if you leave the double-click time at its default of 500ms: The default tooltip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time. It&#8217;s used as the basis for many user interface time values that don&#8217;t have their own custom setting. Here are just a few examples, along with the values you get if you leave the double-click time at its default of 500ms: The default tooltip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}