How can I disable press and hold effect by touch in Metro style app?

Question

Hi,

How can I disable press and hold effect by touch in Metro style app?

If I touch and hold for a while on a screen on Metro style app, a rectangle like below shows up .



Is there any way to disable this effect?

I could see this effect is disabled in most of Win8 RP pre-installed metro applications.

Anybody who knows this, please let me know.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi FunkeeMastah,

Metro style app and WPF app are different kinds of applications.

By "Metro WPF app", do you mean Metro Style xaml app? Or a WPF application running on Windows 8?

Have a nice day!

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Min Zhu [MSFT]
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Answer 2

I'm sorry to make you confused..

I'll fix the title.

It means Metro Style App on WinRT.

(Metro Style xaml app)

and also I could see that the JavaScrtip Metro Style App doesn't show the press and hold rectangle effect.

Does only JavaScript Metro Style app not show the effect?

or Xaml Metro Style App can also disable the effect?

Answer 3

Hi FunkeeMastah,

Thanks for the clarification. I have moved this thread to the Metro Style app forum for better support.

Best regards,

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Min Zhu [MSFT]
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Answer 4

@FunkeeMastah,

What sort of control is that?

Stefan

Answer 5

@ StefanOlsan

It shows on all controls.

It is the same press and hold effect by touch as its desk top area effect.

If you touch the screen and hold for a while on desk top or Xaml Metro Style app, you can see the rectangle(square).

I'd like to disable this effect on Xaml Metro Style app.

Thank you.

Answer 6

I would also like to know what is causing this and how to disable it for a metro game.

Answer 7

Just because I found this thread before the actual answer, here it is:

element.addEventListener("MSGestureHold", function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }, false);
 // Disables visual

I found the answer here: Pointer and Gesture Events

Cheers, Ben.

Answer 8

For XAML this effect has been turned off by default by the RTM release.

sorry for the problems,
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