# Gesture Events

Based on the `low-level pointer events <pages/pointer#pointer_events>`,
the following gesture events are available in all three of qooxdoo's GUI
toolkits (qx.Desktop, qx.Mobile and qx.Website):

  - [tap](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Tap):
    A brief finger/stylus tap or mouse click
  - [longtap](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Tap):
    A tap that is held down for 500 milliseconds
  - [dbltap](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Tap):
    Two taps in quick succession
  - [swipe](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Swipe):
    Horizontal or vertical swipe motion
  - [rotate](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Rotate):
    Two contact points (e.g. fingers) rotating around a central point
  - [pinch](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Pinch):
    Two contact points moving towards or away from each other
  - [track](apps://apiviewer/index.html#qx.event.type.Track):
    Cross-device equivalent to mouse drag (fired only between
    pointerdown and pointerup)
