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Welcome here! I'm always amazed by your work and have a sweet spot for custom USB devices like the DIP Switch USB stick or the knob box. One question: is there

Welcome here! I'm always amazed by your work and have a sweet spot for custom USB devices like the DIP Switch USB stick or the knob box. One question: is there any way to match such a device to an UI element in Windows, so that a physical knob can change the value of a slider element or a physical gauge showing a value for a software gauge/progress bar? There used to be tools that allowed to click UI elements in a different program and change properties of these, e.g. setting a disabled UI element to enabled or reading out a value from a password field. That was 20 years ago though, so it might be possible that Windows is separating different programs more strictly these days.

bikerglen 4y ago
Thanks! I'm working on a three-wire DC Selsyn landing gear and flaps indicator next. Just did a bunch of rework to convert it from a self-powered device to a USB bus-powered device. Hoping to get a blog post up about it in a week or two. I need to work on a C# app to demonstrate the landing gear and flaps indicator next though. It's working in Linux using a CLI but the Windows GUI makes the demo videos easier. I'm not aware of any way to access dialog box elements using an API but I'm also not really a Windows developer either. I thought back in the day COM was supposed to enable sharing app elements and data using OLE and ActiveX. But all that Windows tech is beyond me. Closest thing I can think of would be a bar code reader always having focus of one particular box on a form but I don't know how that works.