hid-collections.md

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HID Collections Overview

A HID collection is a meaningful grouping of HID controls and their respective HID usages.

Controls should be grouped together if they are logically related or are functionally dependent on one another. For instance, a SHIFT key and a letter key on a keyboard should not belong to separate collections. Collections can have nested subcollections, also referred to as link collections. Report descriptors define one or more top-level collections, and the report items, associated with each collection, define one or more HID reports.

Windows extends the concept of a HID collection to include the following:

Top-level collections

Top-level collections opened by Windows for system use

Preparsed data

Link collections

Collection capability

Button capability arrays

Value capability arrays

Data indices