Touch Functions (Compact 2013)
3/28/2014
The following table shows the functions that support direct manipulation and gestures, with a description of the purpose of each.
Many of these functions are shared with the mouse, since stylus interaction is interpreted as a left mouse click.
The icon functions are mostly shared with GWES.
In This Section
- ClipCursor
This function confines the cursor to a rectangular area on the screen.
- CreateIconIndirect
This function creates an icon or cursor from an ICONINFO structure.
- DestroyIcon
This function destroys an icon and frees any memory the icon occupied.
- DisableGestures
This function disables one or many touch gestures for a window or application process.
- DrawIcon
This function draws an icon in the specified device context.
- EnableGestures
This function enables one or many touch gestures for a window or application process.
- ExtractIconEx
This function retrieves the handle from the specified executable file or dynamic-link library (DLL).
- GetCapture
This function retrieves the handle to the window, if any, that has captured the mouse or stylus input.
- GetClipCursor
This function retrieves the screen coordinates of the rectangular area to which the cursor is confined.
- GetCursor
This function retrieves the handle to the current cursor.
- GetCursorPos
This function retrieves the cursor's position, in screen coordinates.
- GetDeviceCaps
The nIndex parameter TOUCHCAPS can be used to determine whether a device supports touch.
- GetDoubleClickTime
This function retrieves the current double-click time for the mouse or stylus.
- GetMouseMovePoints
This function retrieves points, associated with WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_MOUSEMOVE messages, that the OS typically discards when an application cannot process these messages as fast as the application receives these messages.
- LoadAnimatedCursor
This function enables an application to define and load a customized, animated wait cursor.
- LoadCursor
This function loads a cursor resource.
- LoadIcon
This function loads the specified icon resource from the executable (.exe) file associated with an application instance.
- mouse_event
This function synthesizes mouse motion and button clicks.
- ReleaseCapture
This function releases the mouse or stylus capture from a window in the current thread and restores normal processing of input.
- SetCapture
This function sets the mouse or style capture to a specified window that belongs to the current thread.
- SetCursor
This function establishes the cursor shape.
- SetCursorPos
This function moves the cursor to the specified screen coordinates.
- ShowCursor
This function displays or hides the cursor.