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Chapter 1: Beginning at the Beginning
are several finger motions that you’ll want to become familiar with to work
with your screen. I cover these motions in the following sections.
Tapping to select or launch from the screen
A tap is simply a touch of the screen. Tapping is much like using a touch
screen at a retail kiosk. Figure 1-8 shows what the motion should look like.
Single touch of the screen.
Finger down on a single point within a bounded area and back
up within a short period of time.
Figure 1-8: The tap motion.
In some ways, the tap is like a single click of a mouse on a computer screen.
It allows you to select options on a screen.
One difference between a mouse on a computer and a tap on a Windows
Phone is that it takes a double-click to open an application on your computer,
but only a single tap to open an application on your Windows Phone.
Don’t press and hold. If you leave your finger on the screen for more than an
instant, the phone gets confused and thinks that you want to do something
more.
Moving around the screen “behind” the screen
The other finger actions help you move around the screen to get to the infor-
mation you need at the screen resolution that you want.
You can set your computer to whatever screen resolution you like. And you
may have noticed, if you used a friend’s computer with a different screen
resolution, that the layout of the buttons is a little different. What’s happen-
ing is that the software is sized to on the resolution of your screen. To access
what is not immediately visible on your screen, you’ve probably worked with
a scroll bar, like the horizontal scroll bar shown in Figure 1-9.
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