Hello, I would like to use the HID interface so that I do not have to write a driver to control my USB device. I found libhid and it looks interesting as it is cross platform. I see that it uses libusb, and the last time I had used libusb I had to install a driver on windows. I read on the libhid mailing list that libusb-win32 was going to use the native windows HID driver in it's future releases, which would require no driver installation:
On 4/11/07, Stephan Meyer wrote: >/ > On 4/10/07, Xiaofan wrote: />/ > The thing is that you need to uninstall the kernel HID driver and />/ > use the libusb-win32 device driver for this kind of HID device. This />/ > significantly reduces the usability of libusb-win32 for HID device />/ > under Windows. Yet many USB device disguise them as HID device />/ > just to avoid writing a device driver. />/ > />/ > Just wondering if it is possible to use an alternative backend />/ > (Windows HID apli) and make libusb a wrapper on top of it. />/ > I understand then it should perhaps be called libhid-win32 then. />/ />/ This sounds like a great idea! I'll add a native HID backend to the />/ next version of the DLL. It should be possible to implement most of />/ libusb's features on top of Windows' hid.dll such as open, close, />/ interrupt-read/write and basic control messages. The rest can be />/ emulated/simulated. /> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libhid-discuss/2007-April/000136.html) I searched both libhid's and libusb's websites and I found nothing concerning this, does anyone know what the current status is? Does a driver have to be installed to use libhid on windows? Also, what is the difference/advantage with using libhid in comparison with directly using libusb's hid support? Thank you, Gabriel _______________________________________________ libhid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/libhid-discuss http://libhid.alioth.debian.org/
