Docklight News

Just before going into summer holiday mode, we released free maintenance updates for Docklight and Docklight Scripting . Here is what we improved before the outdoors became too tempting... A lot of attention went into flawless Windows 10 compatibility, especially when accessing  USB HID Custom Class devices or COM device drivers with input data buffer > 4KB. In addition, a Docklight script (.pts file) can now be loaded and started automatically along with the Docklight project (.ptp file). If your project is called "robotest.ptp", simply name your script file "robotest_auto.pts" and make sure it is located in the same folder. This is especially useful for any script that with event-based processing using Sub On_Send() or Sub On_Receive() . The Docklight main screen underwent some fine-tuning. Finally there is mouse wheel support for the Send Sequence and Receive Sequence lists. Send and Receive Sequence lists are now protected against accidental reord...

TL;DR; Docklight Scripting V2.1 USB HID support didn't work on Windows 10. Here is an updated version with additional improvements: https://docklight.de/download/Docklight_Scripting.zip The Problem Apparently, Windows 10 has a different behavior concerning HID access than earlier versions. Docklight Scripting uses HIDAPI from Alan Ott / Signal 11, and the problem was recently detected and resolved in the HIPAPI implementation  (see  https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/issues/231 ).  The Solution We updated Docklight Scripting's HIDAPI code, so it can now successfully open a HID connection in Windows 10: We also added two Docklight-specific improvements concerning USB HID access: Added support for variable Output Report IDs You can work now with varying, non-zero Output Report IDs using the :I communication channel option, e.g. USBHID:4D8:F708:I Now the first character of your Send Sequences is used as the Output Report ID (instead of the def...