Longpress in UWP

Question

I'm porting an app to Univeral Windows Platform (Windows 10).

Android has a onLongPress event. Is there an equivalent for UWP?

I found there is a Holding event which I tried to use something like this:

private void Rectangle_Holding(object sender, HoldingRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.HoldingState == HoldingState.Started)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("Holding started!");
    }
}

Problem is the event is not triggered on Windows Desktop, when mouse is used instead of touch.

Answer 1

Mouse input doesn't produce Holding events by default, you should use RightTapped event to show the context menu, it is triggered when user long presses in a touch device and right clicks in a mouse device.

Take a look at GestureRecognizer.Holding and Detect Simple Touch Gestures, you can achieve that using the following code

public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
{
    GestureRecognizer gestureRecognizer = new GestureRecognizer();

    public MainPage()
    {
        this.InitializeComponent();
        gestureRecognizer.GestureSettings = Windows.UI.Input.GestureSettings.HoldWithMouse;         
    }

    void gestureRecognizer_Holding(GestureRecognizer sender, HoldingEventArgs args)
    {
        MyTextBlock.Text = "Hello";
    }

    private void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        gestureRecognizer.Holding += gestureRecognizer_Holding;
    }

    private void Grid_PointerPressed(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        var ps = e.GetIntermediatePoints(null);
        if (ps != null && ps.Count > 0)
        {
            gestureRecognizer.ProcessDownEvent(ps[0]);
            e.Handled = true;
        }
    }

    private void Grid_PointerMoved(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        gestureRecognizer.ProcessMoveEvents(e.GetIntermediatePoints(null));
        e.Handled = true;
    }

    private void Grid_PointerReleased(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        var ps = e.GetIntermediatePoints(null);
        if (ps != null && ps.Count > 0)
        {
            gestureRecognizer.ProcessUpEvent(ps[0]);
            e.Handled = true;
            gestureRecognizer.CompleteGesture();
        }
    }
}