Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Gabriel Rossetti > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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? >> > > You can try out the SVN version of libsub-win32 1.0. Last time > I tried it out, it has the HID backend (along with WinUSB backend > and the libusb-win32 device driver backend). It could find the device, > but interrupt read/write did not work. > > The SVN version: > http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libusb1/ > > It seems to me that this has not been updated for a while. So I guess > it is still not working. But Stephan mentioned that he would try to > finish this with this year. > > libhid is right now based on libusb. > > Xiaofan > Ok, thank you,
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