WPF 4 Unleashed

Chapter 6. Input Events: Keyboard, Mouse, Stylus, and Multi-Touch

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Routed Events

• Keyboard Events

• Mouse Events

• Stylus Events

• Multi-Touch Events

• Commands

Now that you know how to arrange a WPF user interface, it’s time see how to make it interactive. This chapter covers two pieces of important plumbing in WPF—routed events and commands. It also examines the events you can handle for each category of input device: keyboard, mouse, stylus, and multi-touch.

Routed Events

Chapter 3, “WPF Fundamentals,” demonstrates how WPF adds more infrastructure on top of the simple notion of .NET properties with its dependency properties. WPF also adds more infrastructure on top of the simple notion of .NET events. Routed events