How to prevent a double-click using jQuery?

Question

I have a button as such:

Within jQuery I am using the following, but it still

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, but disabling the button didn't fully did the trick. There were some other actions that took place when the button was clicked and, sometimes, button wasn't disabled soon enough and when the user double-clicked, 2 events where fired.
I took Pangui's timeout idea, and combined both techniques, disabling the button and includeding a timeout, just in case. And I created a simple jQuery plugin:

var SINGLECLICK_CLICKED = 'singleClickClicked';
$.fn.singleClick = function () {
    var fncHandler; 
    var eventData;
    var fncSingleClick = function (ev) {
        var $this = $(this);
        if (($this.data(SINGLECLICK_CLICKED)) || ($this.prop('disabled'))) {
            ev.preventDefault();
            ev.stopPropagation();
        }
        else {
            $this.data(SINGLECLICK_CLICKED, true);
            window.setTimeout(function () {
                $this.removeData(SINGLECLICK_CLICKED);
            }, 1500);
            if ($.isFunction(fncHandler)) {
                fncHandler.apply(this, arguments);
            }
        }
    }

    switch (arguments.length) {
        case 0:
            return this.click();
        case 1:
            fncHandler = arguments[0];
            this.click(fncSingleClick);
            break;
        case 2: 
            eventData = arguments[0];
            fncHandler = arguments[1];
            this.click(eventData, fncSingleClick);
            break;
    }
    return this;
}

And then use it like this:

$("#button1").singleClick(function () {
   $(this).prop('disabled', true);
   //...
   $(this).prop('disabled', false);
})