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<h2 id="page_Pointing-Device">Pointing Device</h2>
<p>Pointing Device is a generic name for a feature intended to be generic: moving the system pointer around. There are certainly other options for it - like mousekeys - but this aims to be easily modifiable and lightweight. You can implement custom keys to control functionality, or you can gather information from other peripherals and insert it directly here - let QMK handle the processing for you.</p>
<p>To enable Pointing Device, uncomment the following line in your rules.mk:</p>
<pre><code>POINTING_DEVICE_ENABLE = yes
</code></pre>
<p>To manipulate the mouse report, you can use the following functions:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>pointing_device_get_report()</code> - Returns the current report_mouse_t that represents the information sent to the host computer</li>
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<code>pointing_device_set_report(report_mouse_t newMouseReport)</code> - Overrides and saves the report_mouse_t to be sent to the host computer</li>
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<p>Keep in mind that a report_mouse_t (here &quot;mouseReport&quot;) has the following properties:</p>
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<code>mouseReport.x</code> - this is a signed int from -127 to 127 (not 128, this is defined in USB HID spec) representing movement (+ to the right, - to the left) on the x axis.</li>
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<code>mouseReport.y</code> - this is a signed int from -127 to 127 (not 128, this is defined in USB HID spec) representing movement (+ upward, - downward) on the y axis.</li>
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<code>mouseReport.v</code> - this is a signed int from -127 to 127 (not 128, this is defined in USB HID spec) representing vertical scrolling (+ upward, - downward).</li>
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<code>mouseReport.h</code> - this is a signed int from -127 to 127 (not 128, this is defined in USB HID spec) representing horizontal scrolling (+ right, - left).</li>
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<code>mouseReport.buttons</code> - this is a uint8_t in which the last 5 bits are used. These bits represent the mouse button state - bit 3 is mouse button 5, and bit 7 is mouse button 1.</li>
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<p>When the mouse report is sent, the x, y, v, and h values are set to 0 (this is done in &quot;pointing_device_send()&quot;, which can be overridden to avoid this behavior). This way, button states persist, but movement will only occur once. For further customization, both <code>pointing_device_init</code> and <code>pointing_device_task</code> can be overridden.</p>
<p>In the following example, a custom key is used to click the mouse and scroll 127 units vertically and horizontally, then undo all of that when released - because that's a totally useful function. Listen, this is an example:</p>
<pre><code>case MS_SPECIAL:
report_mouse_t currentReport = pointing_device_get_report();
if (record-&gt;event.pressed)
{
currentReport.v = 127;
currentReport.h = 127;
currentReport.buttons |= MOUSE_BTN1; //this is defined in report.h
}
else
{
currentReport.v = -127;
currentReport.h = -127;
currentReport.buttons &amp;= ~MOUSE_BTN1;
}
pointing_device_set_report(currentReport);
break;
</code></pre>
<p>Recall that the mouse report is set to zero (except the buttons) whenever it is sent, so the scrolling would only occur once in each case.</p>
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