Label - single click callback with edit on double click- how to?

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Hi Guys,

What’s the best/recommended way to hande single click on Label, when Label is set to edit on doubleclick with Label.setEditable(false, true, false) ?
I would like to perform some actions upon single click, and edit on double click.
Thanks in advance for any hints!

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If you plan to have this behaviour for several labels, then you could inherit Label :

struct SpecialLabel : public Label
{
    using Label::Label;

    void mouseUp (const MouseEvent& e) override
    {
        Label::mouseUp (e);

        // changing the text colour everytime the label is clicked :
        Colour randomColour (Random::getSystemRandom().nextInt());
        setColour (Label::textColourId, randomColour);
    }
};

//==============================================================================
class MainComponent   : public Component
{
public:
    //==============================================================================
    MainComponent()
    {
        label.setEditable (false, true, false);
        addAndMakeVisible (label);
        setSize (400, 200);
    }

    void paint (Graphics& g) override { g.fillAll (Colours::lightgrey); }

    void resized() override { label.setBounds (10, 10, 200, 30); }

private:
    //==============================================================================
    SpecialLabel label {"labelName", "this is the label text"};

    JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE_WITH_LEAK_DETECTOR (MainComponent)
};

But if it’s something you just want to do once, then you can simply listen to the mouse events coming from the label :

//==============================================================================
class MainComponent   : public Component
{
public:
    //==============================================================================
    MainComponent()
    {
        label.setEditable (false, true, false);
        label.addMouseListener (this, false);
        addAndMakeVisible (label);
        setSize (400, 200);
    }

    ~MainComponent()
    {
        label.removeMouseListener (this);
    }

    void paint (Graphics& g) override { g.fillAll (Colours::lightgrey); }

    void resized() override { label.setBounds (10, 10, 200, 30); }

    void mouseUp (const MouseEvent& e) override
    {
        if (e.eventComponent == &label)
        {
            Colour randomColour (Random::getSystemRandom().nextInt());
            label.setColour (Label::textColourId, randomColour);
        }
    }

private:
    //==============================================================================
    Label label {"labelName", "this is the label text"};

    JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE_WITH_LEAK_DETECTOR (MainComponent)
};
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Excellent info!
Thank you!