HIDVirtualDevice

Declaration

actor HIDVirtualDevice

Mentioned in

• Creating virtual devices

Overview

A HID device is a computer peripheral intended to provide direction to the system from human input. The specification is a broad, industry-wide standard maintained by the USB Implementers Forum.

A HIDVirtualDevice is an object that emulates a HID device connected to the system, without the need for a physical device. Such a tool can be used by an app to emulate a keyboard and dispatch HID reports to the system using dispatchInputReport(data:timestamp:) that signify key strokes, and could be received by a HIDDeviceClientlistening for such activity in other apps. The virtual device can also receive requests from the system using its HIDVirtualDeviceDelegate.

Topics

Create a HID virtual device

• init(properties:)
• deviceReference
• activate(delegate:)

Dispatch input reports

• dispatchInputReport(data:timestamp:)

Structures

• HIDVirtualDevice.Properties

Instance Properties

• hidDevice

Relationships

Conforms To

• Actor
• Copyable
• CustomStringConvertible
• Equatable
• Escapable
• Hashable
• Sendable
• SendableMetatype

See Also

Simulation

• Creating virtual devices
• HIDVirtualDeviceDelegate
• HIDVirtualDevice.Properties