Note: This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.
Device type that describes the object. It is a combination of the following flags describing the object type (axis, button, and so forth) and containing the object-instance number in the middle 16 bits. When requesting a data format, the instance portion must be set to DIDFT_ANYINSTANCE to indicate that any instance is permissible, or to DidftMakeinstance(n) to restrict the request to instance n. See the examples under Remarks.