Chapter 6 Mouse and Keyboard Input

This chapter covers mouse and keyboard input, or the smart device equivalent. Mouse and keyboard are standard input devices on a desktop PC system, but no standard exists for smart device input. There is, instead, a wide range of available input hardware, limited only by the imaginations of the platform development teams. Programmers who are new to smart device programming need to adopt new approaches to thinking about user input when developing software for smart In this chapter, we discuss Platform Invoke – a .NET feature for calling unmanaged libraries from managed code calling unmanaged libraries from managed code