Manipulation Events

Manipulation events consolidate the touch activities of one or two fingers. Manipulation events combine individual touch point information, provided by the Touch.FrameReported event, and interpret them into a higher-level API with velocity, scaling, and translation information.

Moreover, unlike the Touch.FrameReported event, which provides touch notifications for your entire interface, a manipulation event is specific to the UIElement to which it is associated.

The manipulation events comprise three UIElement events, which are described in the following list:

Image ManipulationStartedRaised when the user touches the UIElement

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