Types of Gestures (Compact 2013)
3/26/2014
An application controls the gesture types it will receive by calling EnableGestures. Each gesture message that GWES sends to an application indicates the type of gesture that occurred.
The following table shows the types of gestures that Windows Embedded Compact 2013 and the built-in recognizer provide. For each gesture it indicates the type of touch panel required to detect the gesture, a description of the gesture, and how an application might react to the gesture.
Gesture |
Touch panel type |
Description |
Possible effect on an application |
|---|---|---|---|
Tap |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
One-finger touch and quick release |
Select |
Hold |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
One-finger touch, maintain the same touch contact point for a brief time |
Display a menu |
Double-tap |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
Two one-finger touches in quick succession |
Execute a program |
Pan (one finger) |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
One-finger touch and slow movement |
Move an object |
Flick (scroll) |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
One-finger touch, quick movement in a line, and release |
Scroll |
Pan (two fingers) |
True or symmetric multi-touch |
Two-finger touch, move fingers together (pinch) or apart (stretch) |
Zoom in (stretch) or zoom out (pinch) |
Direct Manipulation |
Single touch, true or symmetric multi-touch |
Pan, scroll, or two-finger touch activity on a true multi-touch panel |
Pan, scroll or other activity (such as rotate) |
For more information about how you program applications to detect and handle these gestures, see Process Gesture Messages.