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UWP - How to use RepeatButton

UWP RepeatButton
The RepeatButton class represents a control that raises its Click event repeatedly when users pressed and held it.

The following UWP app development tutorial code will demonstrate how we can use RepeatButton in a UWP application. Here we add two RepeatButton controls in an app whose respective Click events are used to increase and decrease a counter.

The UWP app developers use a RepeatButton to raise Click events repeatedly from the time it is pressed until it is released.

The RepeatButton class’s Interval property gets or sets the time, in milliseconds, between repetitions of the click action, as soon as repeating starts. This property value type is Int32 which is the time, in milliseconds, between repetitions of the click action, as soon as repeating starts. The default value of this property is 250.

The RepeatButton class Delay property gets or sets the time, in milliseconds, that the RepeatButton waits when it is pressed before it starts repeating the click action. This property data type is also Int32 which is the time, in milliseconds, that the RepeatButton waits when it is pressed before it starts repeating the click action. The Delay property default value is 250.

The ButtonBase class’s Click event occurs when a button control is clicked.
MainPage.xaml

<Page
    x:Class="UniversalAppTutorials.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="using:UniversalAppTutorials"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d">

    <StackPanel Margin="50" Orientation="Vertical">
        <TextBlock
            x:Name="text_block_1"
            Text="Click the buttons."
            Margin="20"
            />
        <!-- Interval and Delay in Milliseconds -->
        <RepeatButton
            x:Name="repeat_button_1"
            Content="Increase"
            Interval="300"
            Delay="600"
            Click="Increase_Button_Click"
            Margin="10"
            />
        <RepeatButton
            x:Name="repeat_button_2"
            Content="Decrease"
            Interval="300"
            Delay="600"
            Click="Decrease_Button_Click"
            Margin="10"
            />
    </StackPanel>
</Page>
MainPage.xaml.cs

using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;


namespace UniversalAppTutorials
{
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
        }

        private static int number_of_clicks = 0;

        private void Increase_Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
            // Increse the number of every click
            number_of_clicks += 1;

            // Set the text block text
            text_block_1.Text = "Clicks : " + number_of_clicks;
        }

        private void Decrease_Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
            // Decrease the number of every click
            number_of_clicks -= 1;

            // Set the text block text
            text_block_1.Text = "Clicks : " + number_of_clicks;
        }
    }
}
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