Tapped event should not fire when holdding event perform (UWP)

Question

Because Hold And Tap Event is not available in UWP so i am using Tapped And Holding event in UWP.

for Windows phone 8 apps i am using tap hand hold event for button. where when i hold a button tap event is not fire.

but in UWP i tried Click and Tapped event but both fires when i hold button.

please suggest me other method where other event should not fire when i hold a button Holding Event here is necessary, suggest me alternate of Tapped and click event because these event fires when i hold and release a button

XAML

<StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center">
       <Button Name="BackwardButton" 
               FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets" Content="&#xE26C;"
               FontSize="30" Background="Transparent"
               Tapped="BackwardButton_Tapped" Holding="BackwardButton_Holding"
               PointerExited="BackwardButton_PointerExited"/></StackPanel>



<TextBlock Name="txtBox1"  FontSize="18"
           HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>

C#

private static int i;
private void BackwardButton_Tapped(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    i++;

    txtBox1.Text = i.ToString();
}


private int a = 10;
private void BackwardButton_Holding(object sender, HoldingRoutedEventArgs e)
{
     BackwardButton.Content = "\xE100";
     try
     {
         a++;
         txtBox1.Text = a.ToString();
     }
     catch (Exception)
     {
         //Exception(ex);
     }
}



private void BackwardButton_PointerExited(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e)
{           
    BackwardButton.Content = "\xE26C";            
}

Solutions i already tried- https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e386e2e8-0312-4b1e-8eea-9522db83d632/click-and-tapped-event-should-not-fire-when-holding-event-perform?forum=wpdevelop

And solution tried on windows 8 but hold and tap event not available in UWP Click Event should not trigger when hold event perform

Actually you will need to show more of your code. I can't replicate this. — Justin XL, Aug 03 '17 at 08:11
When I *long hold* on the button, only the `Holding` event fires... What did I miss? — Justin XL, Aug 03 '17 at 08:47
But when you release the button tapped event also fires, but when i use same thing win 8 phone hold and tap event, tap event isn't fires when i hold and release a button — Shubham Sahu, Aug 03 '17 at 08:57
Are you sure you are doing a Hold? The tapped event is not fired on my end. — Justin XL, Aug 03 '17 at 09:00
How ?. In my end, when i hold the button it increment the value by 1 and as soon as i release the button it increment the value by 10 — Shubham Sahu, Aug 03 '17 at 09:04
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/150922/discussion-between-justin-xl-and-shubham-sahu). — Justin XL, Aug 03 '17 at 09:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '17 at 11:04

Note the Holding event will fire twice. First time is in HoldingState.Started state and second in HoldingState.Completed. All you have to do is wrap your logic within the following if statement

private void BackwardButton_Holding(object sender, HoldingRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.HoldingState == Windows.UI.Input.HoldingState.Started)
    {
        ...
    }

I'd recommend you to start using breakpoints to work out issues like this though. It should be fairly straight forward to figure out the Tapped event is never called during holding by putting a breakpoint at

txtBox1.Text = i.ToString();

Hope this helps.

Tapped event should not fire when holdding event perform (UWP)

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