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mouse gesture
A few gestural conventions have become widespread, including the drag and drop gesture, in which:
The user presses the mouse button while the mouse cursor hovers over an interface object
The user moves the cursor to a different location while holding the button down
The user releases the mouse button
For example, a user might drag-and-drop a picture representing a file onto a picture of a trash can, thus instructing the system to delete the file.
Standard semantic gestures include:
Crossing-based goal
Drag and drop
Menu traversal
Pointing
Rollover
Selection.
- Part of Speech: verb
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary: Gaming mouse
- Industry/Domain: Computer
- Category: Computer hardware
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