arkts-event-overview.md

# Interaction Event Overview


Interaction events are classified based on trigger types into touchscreen events, keyboard and mouse events, and focus events.


- [Touchscreen event](arkts-common-events-touch-screen-event.md): an event triggered by the operation performed a finger or stylus on the touchscreen.

- [Keyboard and mouse event](arkts-common-events-device-input-event.md): an event triggered by an operation performed on a peripheral mouse, touchpad, or keyboard.
  - The mouse event refers to an event responded to when an operation is performed with a peripheral mouse or touchpad.
  - The keyboard event refera to an event responded to when an operation is performed with a peripheral keyboard.

- [Focus event](arkts-common-events-focus-event.md): an event triggered when a component receives or loses focus.


The gesture event includes the gesture binding method and the bound gesture – a single or combined gesture.


- [Gesture binding method](arkts-gesture-events-binding.md): a method that binds a single or combined gesture to a component and declares the response priority of the bound gesture.

- [Single gesture](arkts-gesture-events-single-gesture.md): basic unit of gestures, which is a part of all complex gestures.

- [Combined gesture](arkts-gesture-events-combined-gestures.md): a combination of single gestures brought together according to a declared type and a certain rule.