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# Gestures

Encapsulate your app’s event-handling logic in gesture recognizers so that you can reuse that code throughout your app.

## Topics

### Standard Gestures

[`NSClickGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSClickGestureRecognizer)

A discrete gesture recognizer that tracks a specified number of mouse clicks.

[`NSPressGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPressGestureRecognizer)

A discrete gesture recognizer that tracks whether the user holds down a mouse button for a minimum amount of time before releasing it.

[`NSPanGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPanGestureRecognizer)

A continuous gesture recognizer for panning gestures.

[`NSRotationGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSRotationGestureRecognizer)

A continuous gesture recognizer that tracks two trackpad touches moving opposite each other in a circular motion.

[`NSMagnificationGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSMagnificationGestureRecognizer)

A continuous gesture recognizer that tracks a pinch gesture that magnifies content.

### Custom Gestures

[`NSGestureRecognizer`](/documentation/AppKit/NSGestureRecognizer)

An object that monitors events and calls its action method when a predefined sequence of events occur.

[`NSGestureRecognizerDelegate`](/documentation/AppKit/NSGestureRecognizerDelegate)

A set of methods for fine-tuning a gesture recognizer’s behavior.


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