HID Reports
A HID report is used to transmit HID control data to and from a HIDClass device. A report descriptor defines the format of a report. Input and output reports specify control data and feature reports specify configuration data. If a device supports more than one report of the same type, each report is assigned a unique report ID. The following figure shows an example of a HID collection that contains two input reports.
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This figure shows two input reports, one that contains value and button data and the other that contains only button data. In general, the number of reports within a HID collection and the number of values and buttons in a report are device-specific.
Input and Output Reports
Input and output reports specify HID control data. Input controls are sources of data relevant to an application, for example, x and y data obtained from a pointing device. Output controls are a sink for application data, for example, an LED that indicates the state of a device.
For information about reading and writing reports, see Obtaining HID Reports and Sending HID Reports.
Feature Reports
A feature report specifies configuration information for a device. A user-mode application obtains and sets feature information by using the following HIDClass support routines:
A kernel-mode driver obtains and sets feature information by using the following HID class driver IOCTLs:
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