That sounds fantastic!  I'm still kind of stumbling a bit with this USB 
stuff.Do you know of any materials I can read to learn more about making our 
device generic?I know there's a USB standard that might supply that 
information, but I don't rememberseeing generic HID there...

> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:36:07 +0800
> From: xiaof...@gmail.com
> To: pyusb-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [pyusb-users] Using the Library Question
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Bryce Gamble <iamhighlan...@hotmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> I'm running on Windows 7 32-bit.
> >> If I need to install mouse drivers, I may be in trouble.
> >> The real reason I started playing with pyusb is that I have a project
> >> where I need to interface with a microcontroller via USB.  We already know
> >> we have to write a driver to mount on the microcontroller, but I was kinda
> >> hoping to avoid some of the heavy lifting on the PC side.
> >
> > Unfortunately you have to install a supported driver
> > (eg: libusb-win32 device driver, libusb-win32 filter
> > driver, or winusb driver).
> >
> > Is your device really a mouse? If yes, then actually libusb
> > and pyusb are not the right tools to use with a mouse.
> >
> > But you can still use libusb-win32 filter driver along
> > with the Windows mouse driver. That is not an optimal
> > solution but at least you can keep the mouse function.
> 
> >From your description, it seems to me your device
> will not be a mouse after all, in that case, make it
> a generic device and then you can use one of the
> supported driver and use libusb/pyusb.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Xiaofan
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