Because the CellPreview interface does not natively capture double click events you will need add event logic into the Overriden onCellPreview method. First you would think the best way would be to check the click time differences. However it is much more efficient and elegant to use a state machine and count clicks. This is more robust and allows you to deal with multiple event cases - Such as mouse hover, single, and double clicks. The code is pretty straightforward. So enjoy!
public class CellHoverHandler implements Handler<T> {
Timer singleClickTimer;
int clickCount = 0;
int clickDelay = 300;
@Override
public void onCellPreview(final CellPreviewEvent<T> event) {
if (Event.getTypeInt(event.getNativeEvent().getType()) == Event.ONMOUSEOVER) {
handleOnMouseOver(event);
} else if (Event.getTypeInt(event.getNativeEvent().getType()) == Event.ONCLICK) {
clickCount++;
if (clickCount == 1) {
singleClickTimer = new Timer() {
@Override
public void run() {
clickCount = 0;
handleOnClick(event);
}
};
singleClickTimer.schedule(clickDelay);
} else if (clickCount == 2) {
singleClickTimer.cancel();
clickCount = 0;
handleOnDblClick(event);
}
}
}
private void handleOnMouseOver(CellPreviewEvent<T> event) {
Element cell = event.getNativeEvent().getEventTarget().cast();
GWT.log("mouse over event");
}
private void handleOnClick(CellPreviewEvent<T> event) {
Element cell = event.getNativeEvent().getEventTarget().cast();
GWT.log("click event");
}
private void handleOnDblClick(CellPreviewEvent<T> event) {
Element cell = event.getNativeEvent().getEventTarget().cast();
GWT.log("double click event");
}
OPTIMIZATION: feel free to stick the count, timer, and delay as static class members or global members to reuse. Also check to see if the timer is null before making a new instance. I had omitted this for simplicity. Unlike a lot of other techniques this way still provides you with easy and direct access to the cell event. The technique with overloading the AbstractCell works well too, however sometimes you really don't have custom cells or want to make a custom cell to just handle events on the cell.