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- Subject: RE: Preliminary Lua bindings for hidapi
- From: "Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@...>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 22:53:17 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org]
> On Behalf Of KHMan
> Sent: dinsdag 8 mei 2012 22:21
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Preliminary Lua bindings for hidapi
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here's something for embedded hardware people...
>
> I have a preliminary binding for hidapi[1] working (on WinXP).
> hidapi is a cross-platform library for working with USB HID
> devices and on Win32, it allows for convenient driverless
> interfacing -- enough for low data rate stuff and simple to use
> versus the alternatives.[2]
>
> All hidapi API calls are (mostly) implemented. However, things
> like Unicode strings are currently truncated to ASCII, so a proper
> "nice-and-sane" release still needs work. The binding code is
> already all non-platform-specific, I think.
>
> I don't think I want to maintain a repository in the long term and
> do releases, so if anyone wants to play with it or incorporate it
> into a relevant codebase, I'm more than happy to shovel it to you.
> The usual Lua-like license can be used.
Not right now, but might in the future, do you have a repo somewhere?
> [1] http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/
> [2] WinUSB, libusb-win32, libusbx-win, ...