Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel] Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

Windows 8 adds Direct Manipulation. It's an API designed for asynchronous pan & zoom kinds of things.

Reading the docs hint that it might be able to get input on threads other than the ones that own the HWND, but it's not clear.

Chrome is using Direct Manipulation to get nicer events:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/ui/gfx/win/direct_manipulation.h&q=%22direct%20manipulation%22&sq=package:chromium&type=cs&l=18

	Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel] Reporter
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

I had a bit of a look at what, if any, magic Direct Manipulation uses. Here's what I found out:
- There's a InitDManipHook function that's called
- This installs ManipulationPostProcessMessage and ManipulationPreProcessMessage hooks that are called by User32.dll before dispatching messages. I'm not sure what these hooks do, or why they're needed.