About the different types of multi-touch gestures

This section describes the different types of multi-touch gestures and how they can be used in your project.

The gestures themselves — swipe, slide, pinch, stretch, and so on — are a standard part of many operating systems today, so you are probably already familiar with using them on a tablet or smartphone. And even if you are not, illustrations of the gestures are provided in this section.

What this section describes is which gestures can be used in which areas of your project. For example, the same "pinch" and "stretch" gestures can be used to resize a project screen, to resize a screen object with the Resize animation, or even to navigate through a trend graph.

Please note that for the purposes of this documentation, "multi-touch gesture" almost always means a gesture using two fingers. There are some exceptions, such as using a one-finger swipe to select cells in a Grid object, but those exceptions will be described in detail in their respective sections.