Hold Gesture
The hold gesture is performed by touching the screen while continuing contact for a period of time (see Figure 12.5).
FIGURE 12.5 Hold gesture.
The UIElement.Hold event is raised when the user touches the screen for one second.
An event handler for the Hold event is shown in the following excerpt:
void HandleHold(object sender, GestureEventArgs e){ textBlock.Text = "hold";}
As an aside, the UIElement Hold event is used by the Windows Phone Toolkit’s ContextMenu component. When used in this way, the hold gesture mimics the right-click of a mouse.
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