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You are right, my judgement was based on insufficient research. It came spontaneously out of my frustration about the fact that I've been waiting for this essential feature for so many years now ...

I assume that PB is more or less a dead product ... I have given up on it and started to learn Rust now.

I assume I could achieve that via Windows/Linux APIs The USB HID API is available on Windows only. On Linux and MacOS X need use libudev.
But nevertheless, Linux supports many HID devices (such as mice and keyboards) out of the box, so there should be a way to access HID devices via OS calls on ...

Thank you, I meanwhile also found that Russian HID library. However, it seems to be Windows only. I had hoped for something that would fully encapsulate the OS API calls, allowing us to use the same code on all platforms.

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I think there is something about webcams you can find if you search the forum, as well about USB.
The problem is that a forum search for "usb" does not return anything, even though there are posts about USB (I know, because I wrote two of them). It seems like the forum does not accept search terms ...

Hello all, I'm considering PureBasic for a cross-platform software project (Windows/Linux), but I could not find information as to whether PureBasic supports communication with USB devices (other than mouse, keyboard, game controllers) out of the box, i.e. without the use of OS APIs. In my case, it ...

I would be surprised if webcams use the HID class, most of them come with their own drivers, I think (correct me if I'm wrong). HID is a generic USB access method that does not require special device drivers, because everything is included with the operating system. But it is not easy to use the HID ...

It would be great if PureBasic offered functions to access USB HID (Human Interface Devices) directly. HID drivers are included with Windows and other operating systems (they are used by mouse and keyboard, for example), but they are non-trivial to use and they are not cross-platform.

So if ...