select figure element in ckeditor - capture click on figure element (or any children) - ckeditor

Question

i'm looking for a way to capture and selection a figure element (or any of its children)
ideally, i would like this to bypass the selections of imgs (including objectResizing on imgs) when they are within a figure tag.
i've played around with capturing the events using the currentInstance event. not sure if this is the best approach or whether there is another event. Obviously, i need some kind of event bubbling to know whether the event target (ie. the img) is within a figure element.
i have a sense of how to do this in javascript/jquery, but i'm looking for the proper ckeditor approach, since this is done in ckeditor with imgs and tables.
i have found one possible solution, which enables me to select the figure element, whether i click on one of its children or the figure itself. however, a double click triggers other events associated with the children, so i need to find a way to cancel those other events in this case
editor.on( 'selectionChange', function( evt )
{
if ( editor.readOnly )
return;
/*
* only select our figure elements
*/
var element = evt.data.path.lastElement && evt.data.path.lastElement.getAscendant( 'figure', true );
if ( element && element.getName() == 'figure' && element.getAttribute( 'data-media-id' ) && element.getChildCount() ) {
editor.getSelection().selectElement(element);
}
});
editor.on( 'doubleclick', function( evt )
{
var element = evt.data.element.getAscendant( 'figure', true );
if ( !element.isReadOnly() )
{
if ( element.is( 'figure' ) || element.getParent().is( 'figure' ) )
{
editor.getSelection().selectElement( element );
editor.execCommand('imagemanager', element);
}
}
});

Answer 1

turns out, i just need to pretend to open a dialog. my issue with the doubleclick is that i am not using ckeditor's dialogs (because i am opening a ajax window and building it myself). so this prevents other windows from opening
editor.on( 'doubleclick', function( evt )
{
var element = evt.data.element.getAscendant( 'figure', true );
if ( !element.isReadOnly() )
{
if ( element.is( 'figure' ) || element.getParent().is( 'figure' ) )
{
editor.getSelection().selectElement( element );
editor.execCommand('imagemanager', element);
// :HACK: pretend to open a dialog, cancels other dialogs from opening
evt.data.dialog = '';
}
}
});