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http://www.turboirc.com/temp/3dtest.rar This is a small application that draws a cube on its screen and moves and rotates it depending on the 3D mouse movements. It uses either the 3DC api or the Sensor API. Helpers are 3d.h (for 3d projection stuff), and func.h contains miscellaneous stuff. Z.h / m...

The sensor driver is not something specific for audio applications. It is an abstraction for any type of application if it is sensor aware. That means that the developers of a 3D application can take the 3D mouse data from the sensor API instead of the COM interface you provide which does the job al...

Windows 7 Sensors API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318953(VS.85).aspx) is a new interface in Windows 7 that allows an application to use an abtract COM Api to communicate with devices. It is basically an improved version of the raw input, COM based, designed to provide variant-definiti...

It installs a sensor driver in Windows 7, mapping the 3D mouse as a sensor and thus making it visible to all sensor-aware applications.

x64 driver.
x86 driver.

Try it.

Okay I am uploading the driver in a minute.

Does this mean that {4d1e55b2-f16f-11cf-88cb-001111000030} is not fixed ?
How would you suggest for me to detect the device accurately?

I got the raw input sample with WM_INPUT, presumably its the same format.

And by the way, is the driver always "\\?\HID#VID_046D&PID_C626#6&10bdce10&0&0000#{4d1e55b2-f16f-11cf-88cb-001111000030}" ?

I 've managed to open the driver with CreateFile().

I am trying to understand the format returned - a quick explanation would help.

The problem is that a sensor driver must be an UMDF and not a KMDF. But I asked the sensor msdn forum (although I doubt if anyone will know something at there - it seems that the sensor technology is too new), and I am waiting for a response.

Failure ;(

Although HidD* functions are supposed to be available to all user mode applications, not all of them apparantely are available to UMDF , including the Preparsed Data crucial calls.

I 'll try. I 've never used HID but it shouldn't be that tough.

I don't see any log file. It is running under wudfhost.exe which is a local service - perhaps you could save the data into another folder. Also, does your implementation create a hidden window for WM_INPUT ? If so, that could be a reason of failure. For the same reason I don't believe I can use raw ...

No, the joystick is not visible in the game control panel, but it is visible as a DirectInput device.