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Touch Gesture Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables (Compact 7)

3/12/2014

In Windows Embedded Compact, you can add support for touch gestures as a form of user input. A touch gesture is a movement of a finger or stylus over a control or object on a touch screen.

For more information, see Gesture.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Design Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

  • A device with a touch screen.

Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables

The following table shows the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables you can use to support touch gestures in your OS.

Catalog item Sysgen variable Description Dependencies

Touch Gesture GWES component

SYSGEN_TOUCHGESTURE

Provides support for a touch gesture system which produces gesture events and information for use by windows and controls in the OS.

Requires the Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem (GWES). For more information, see GWES Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.

Default Gesture Response

SYSGEN_GESTUREANIMATION

Includes support for visual gesture responses as default behavior for windows and controls that do not implement any specific behavior in response to gesture commands.

Requires Touch Gesture GWES component (SYSGEN_TOUCHGESTURE) and Gesture Animation Support component (SYSGEN_PHYSICSENGINE).

Gesture Animation Support

SYSGEN_PHYSICSENGINE

Provides support for animating responses to gestures in the UI.

Requires Touch Gesture GWES component (SYSGEN_TOUCHGESTURE).

See Also

Concepts

Touch Gestures
Silverlight for Windows Embedded Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables