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A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game. Input devices that have been classified as game controllers include keyboards , mice , gamepads , and joysticks , as well as special purpose devices, such as ...
Computer mouse is another common USB HID class device. USB HID mice can range from single-button simple devices to multi-button compound devices. Most modern operating systems ship with drivers for standard HID mouse designs (the most common modern mouse design has two dedicated buttons and a mouse wheel that doubles as the third button); mice ...
In computing, DirectInput is a legacy [1] Microsoft API for collecting input from a computer user, via input devices such as the mouse, keyboard, or a gamepad.It also provides a system for action mapping, which allows the user to assign specific actions within a game to the buttons and axes of the input devices.
Being designed at a time when a mouse or keyboard controller was lucky to have 1KB of ROM for all its code and data, the Report Descriptor syntax has many features that allow its size to be minimized e.g., selected control parameters can persist across control multiple definitions, only needing to be redeclared if their value changes.
First Logitech mouse to feature a free-spinning alloy scroll wheel. [12] VX Nano 2007: 7: Free Spinning (toggled by mechanical switch) IR Laser: 800: QUAD/eQUAD 2.4 GHz: 2×AAA: Amongst the first to feature a nano receiver. [13] MX Air 2007: 8: Touch strip: Laser: 800: 2.4 GHz: Rechargeable: Has built in gyroscope. Allows control of cursor by ...
A hardware interrupt is a condition related to the state of the hardware that may be signaled by an external hardware device, e.g., an interrupt request (IRQ) line on a PC, or detected by devices embedded in processor logic (e.g., the CPU timer in IBM System/370), to communicate that the device needs attention from the operating system (OS) [7] or, if there is no OS, from the bare metal ...
A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface
A mouse is a small handheld device pushed over a horizontal surface. A mouse moves the graphical pointer by being slid across a smooth surface. The conventional roller-ball mouse uses a ball to create this action: the ball is in contact with two small shafts that are set at right angles to each other.