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Unimplemented Glyphs

Unimplemented Glyphs

Description of unimplemented gesture glyphs for the Tablet PC.

The following is a list of gesture glyphs that Microsoft® plans to support in the future as part of the Microsoft gesture recognizer. Work is in progress to ensure that the recognition accuracy for these glyphs is high (to avoid accidental activation) and that they map to the appropriate operations.

To ensure consistency of gestures used for common actions between applications, you should adhere to the following suggestions:

  • The Action is the suggested semantic behavior associated with the gesture.
  • For the gestures labeled as Fixed in the following table, Microsoft recommends that you not change the suggested semantic behavior. If an application does not have a need for the specified semantic behavior, Microsoft recommends that you not reuse the gesture for another action or semantic.
  • You should feel free to associate relevant semantic behaviors to all other gestures. These gestures are labeled as Application-specific. For those gestures that have a suggested semantic behavior, Microsoft recommends that you use the gesture for the suggested semantic if the corresponding functionality exists in your application.
  • The hot point of a gesture is a distinguishing point in the geometry of the gesture. The hot point can be used to determine where the gesture was done. The gestures application programming interfaces (APIs) make it possible to determine the hot point for a given gesture. However, not all gestures have a specific distinguishing hot point. For those that do not have a specific distinguishing hot point, the starting point is reported as the hot point.

Note: Some of the gestures do have a distinguishing hot point that just happens to be the starting point. These are distinguished in the table.

Gesture Name Action Fixed Hot point
Infinity Switch into and out of gesture mode Fixed Starting point
Cross Delete Application-specific Intersection of the strokes
Paragraph mark New paragraph Fixed Starting point
Section New section Fixed Starting point
Bullet Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Bullet-cross Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Squiggle Bold Application-specific Starting point
Swap Exchange content Application-specific Middle of the up stroke
Openup Open up space between words Application-specific Middle of the down stroke
Closeup Close up extra space Application-specific Center of the vertical space between the two parentheses
Rectangle Selects enclosed content Fixed Starting point
Circle-tap Application-specific Application-specific Tap
Circle-circle Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Circle-cross Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Circle-line-vertical Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Circle-line-horizontal Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Double-arrow-up Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Double-arrow-down Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Double-arrow-left Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Double-arrow-right Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Up-arrow-left Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Up-arrow-right Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Down-arrow-left Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Down-arrow-right Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Left-arrow-up Application-specific Application-specific The apex of the arrow head
Left-arrow-down Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Right-arrow-up Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Right-arrow-down Application-specific Application-specific Apex of the arrow head
Diagonal-leftup Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Diagonal-rightup Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Diagonal-leftdown Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Diagonal-rightdown Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-A Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-B Bold Fixed Starting point
Latin-Letter-C Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-D Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-E Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-F Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-G Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-H Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-I Italic Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-J Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-K Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-L Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-M Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-N Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-O Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-P Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-Q Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-R Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-S Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-T Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-U Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-V Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-W Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-X Cut Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-Y Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Latin-Letter-Z Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-0 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-1 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-2 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-3 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-4 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-5 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-6 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-7 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-8 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Digit-9 Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Question mark Help Fixed Center along the height of the curve
Sharp Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Dollar Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Asterisk Application-specific Application-specific Center
Plus Paste Fixed Intersection of the strokes
Double-up Scroll up Fixed Starting point
Double-down Scroll down Fixed Starting point
Double-left Scroll left Fixed Starting point
Double-right Scroll right Fixed Starting point
Triple-up Page up Fixed Starting point
Triple-down Page down Fixed Starting point
Triple-left Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Triple-right Application-specific Application-specific Starting point
Bracket-over Application-specific Application-specific Midpoint
Bracket-under Application-specific Application-specific Midpoint
Bracket-left Start of selection Fixed Midpoint
Bracket-right End of selection Fixed Midpoint
Brace-over Application-specific Application-specific Midpoint
Brace-under Application-specific Application-specific Midpoint
Brace-left Start of discontinuous selection Fixed Midpoint
Brace-right End of discontinuous selection Fixed Midpoint
Triple-tap Application-specific Application-specific Starting point is distinguishing hot point
Quadruple-tap Application-specific Application-specific Starting point is distinguishing hot point