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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010

by Alex Mackey
February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Apress
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15.4. Multitouch Functionality

Probably one of the most interesting features in WPF 4.0 is multitouch functionality. Multitouch allows your application to work with touch input and gestures (e.g., you can spin an image around by rotating your hand).

Multitouch support is Windows 7 only and is enabled by setting the IsManipulationEnabled property on an element to true and then handling the various events that the APIs expose. It's worth noting that multitouch functionality is compatible with Surface SDK 2.0 (the world's most expensive but cool table).

The ContentElement, UIElement, and UIElement3D elements support the following events:

  • PreviewTouchDown

  • TouchDown

  • PreviewTouchMove

  • TouchMove

  • PreviewTouchUp

  • TouchUp

  • GotTouchCapture

  • LostTouchCapture

  • TouchEnter ...

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