Touch Messages (Compact 2013)
3/28/2014
The following table shows the messages that support direct manipulation and gestures, with a description of the purpose of each.
Many of these messages are shared with the mouse, since stylus interaction is interpreted as a left mouse click.
The icon messages are mostly shared with GWES.
In This Section
- WM_CAPTURECHANGED
This message is sent to the window losing the capture.
- WM_GETICON
This message is sent to a window to retrieve the handle of the big or small icon associated with a window.
- WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK
This message is posted when the user double-taps the touch screen with the stylus in the client area of a window.
- WM_LBUTTONDOWN
This message is posted when the user presses the touch screen in the client area of a window.
- WM_LBUTTONUP
This message is posted when the user releases the stylus from the touch screen in the client area of a window.
- WM_MOUSEMOVE
This message is posted to a window when the user moves the stylus while the tip is down.
- WM_SETCURSOR
This message is sent to a window if the stylus causes the cursor to move within a window and the stylus input is not captured.
- WM_SETICON
This message is sent by an application to associate a new big or small icon with a window.