Disable click event after touch and hold - appcelerator

Question

I am developing an app iOS app in appcelerator and I got a table with user.
When I click on the user it opens the profile but I also want the user to be able to copy the name just by tap and hold for 2 seconds.
These two event works fine separately but right now after tap and hold the click event fires to. How can I prevent the click event from firing after tap hold?
// Set the timeout
var holdTime = 500, timeout;
// Create the table touch start event listener
table.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {
// Set the selected user id
var itemValue = e.row.value_full;
// Define the function
timeout = setTimeout(function(e) {
// Create the fade out animation
var fadeOut = Titanium.UI.createAnimation({
curve: Ti.UI.ANIMATION_CURVE_EASE_IN_OUT,
opacity: 0,
duration: 1000
});
// Create the loading screen
var copied = UI_messages.showFlash({label : 'Copied!'});
// Add the loading screen
win.add(copied);
// Save value to clipboard
Titanium.UI.Clipboard.setText(itemValue);
// Fade the message out
copied.animate(fadeOut);
}, holdTime);
});
// Create the event listener for touch move
table.addEventListener('touchmove', function() {
// Clear the timeout
clearTimeout(timeout);
});
// Create the event listener for touch move
table.addEventListener('touchend', function(e) {
// Clear the timeout
clearTimeout(timeout);
});

Answer 1

I've run into this problem before as well. The solution I used isn't very pretty, but it's the only effective way that I've found to suppress a touch event after a touch-and-hold.
The only working solution that I could find was to create a bool variable in a global namespace. In your setTimeout function, change the value of the bool to true to indicate that a touch-and-hold has occurred.
In the onClick event event for the row, check the global variable first to see if you've already created a touch-and-hold event - if you have, just return from the onClick event. This will effectively disable your click event when a touch-and-hold occurs.
Remember to set the global variable to false after the touch-and-hold function ends.