Chapter 6. Mouse and Keyboard Input
This chapter covers mouse and keyboard input and the smart-device equivalents. Mouses and keyboards are standard input devices on a desktop PC system, but no standard exists for smart-device input. There is, instead, a wide range of available input hardware, limited only by the imaginations of the platform development teams. Programmers who are new to smart-device programming need to adopt new approaches to thinking about user input when developing software for smart devices.
Some smart devices have a mouse—or an equivalent, like the touch screen on the Pocket PC. Other devices have no pointing device; for example, the Smartphone has neither mouse nor touch screen. These differences in hardware mean that you ...
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