Long click possible?

1

I’d like to do

  'longClick .className': function(){ }

Is that possible via Meteor? Or how can I get around this or hack where please?

2

If you are talking about this jquery plugin https://github.com/pisi/Longclick, then I think it should work if you listen to the longclick event, just like it is described in the Readme.

'longlick .className': function (event) {}
3

Thanks @slava. Not sure if I am willing to use a 4 year old jQuery plugin is a good idea. jQuery has a few API changes IIRC. Plus I’m not sure if this trys to get around the long-tap issue with mobile is addressed.

I’ll bookmark it, & see if I can learn something from it to maybe write my own.

4

from your original post, I wasn’t sure why you expect longclick to be handled at all? I thought it is not part of browser events.

5

I’d like to try to use that library you referenced. So being a newb to meteor I have performed these steps:

  1. I copied the jquery.longclick-min.js to my app folder

  2. Created a test href to click on: <a href="#" id=“test”>Test me</a>

  3. Wrote an event to make it log something to the console:

    Template.body.events({
    ‘click #test’:function(event,template) {
    console.log("Target: " + event.target.id);
    }
    });

and that was working great.

  1. Then as a Hail Mary, I switched click to longclick and … nothing, as you might imagine.

Any hints on what do I need to do to make the longclick( … ) function available to be used in the Template events section? Is there some javascript trick I could do to make it available?

6

I’d also like to know how to register custom events with Meteor (I’m trying to do the same thing… touchhold, longpress, etc.). Really needed to add a lot of additional functionality from hidden UI in my mobile app.

7

It looks as though you can get longpress functionality from hammer.js - see https://atmospherejs.com/chriswessels/hammer. I haven’t implemented it myself but its well documented on atmosphere, has been downloaded many times, and has been well star-rated.