The next step of this chapter is to support some very basic gestures so our cursors can really work in interactive applications, rather than only provide the locations. Before that, we will first introduce common single and multitouch gestures and how they are implemented in this section. Although we are going to finish only two of them (holding and swiping), it is still necessary to have a general understanding here, for the purpose of developing a gesture-based user interface in the future.

There are more resources about multitouch gesture implementations in depth. For example, the Microsoft Touch Gesture website:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd940543(v=vs.85).aspx

You can also see the wiki page, which explains the history and implementation details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_touch