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Making a mouse driver using Labview


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Does anyone know how to make a driver for such a device using LV only?

Assuming you mean a traditional Windows driver, you can't.

You'll nee to use the Windows Device Development Kit and it uses some version of Visual Studio and write it C or C++, I forget which.

On the other hand, if you make it with a USB interface and HID compliant you won't need to make a device driver. Windows (and just about every other modern OS) will recognize it and use a built in driver for it.

There are many microcontroller products/projects out there that ship with a USB interface and HID compliant stack.

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Assuming you mean a traditional Windows driver, you can't.

You'll nee to use the Windows Device Development Kit and it uses some version of Visual Studio and write it C or C++, I forget which.

On the other hand, if you make it with a USB interface and HID compliant you won't need to make a device driver. Windows (and just about every other modern OS) will recognize it and use a built in driver for it.

There are many microcontroller products/projects out there that ship with a USB interface and HID compliant stack.

You can't exactly create a LV driver, but you can use NI-VISA as the driver for a USB device, and then use VISA functions in LV to send USB-RAW communication to the endpoints. This would allow (very) low-level control of the device from LV, even though LV isn't technically the driver.

Search VISA and USB-RAW for more info or see here or here to start.

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Assuming you mean a traditional Windows driver, you can't.

You'll nee to use the Windows Device Development Kit and it uses some version of Visual Studio and write it C or C++, I forget which.

On the other hand, if you make it with a USB interface and HID compliant you won't need to make a device driver. Windows (and just about every other modern OS) will recognize it and use a built in driver for it.

There are many microcontroller products/projects out there that ship with a USB interface and HID compliant stack.

Thanks. That would mean I would have to first program the output of the device according to some mouse standards for generic USB interface.

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You can't exactly create a LV driver, but you can use NI-VISA as the driver for a USB device, and then use VISA functions in LV to send USB-RAW communication to the endpoints. This would allow (very) low-level control of the device from LV, even though LV isn't technically the driver.

Search VISA and USB-RAW for more info or see here or here to start.

Thanks for that Jarrod

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