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OpenNI Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenNI Cookbook Learn how to write NIUI-based applications and motion-controlled games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849518468
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soroush Falahati Soroush Falahati
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

OpenNI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. OpenNI and C++ 3. Using Low-level Data 4. More about Low-level Outputs 5. NiTE and User Tracking 6. NiTE and Hand Tracking 7. NiTE and Skeleton Tracking Index

Working sample for controlling the mouse by hand


As a last recipe of this chapter, we will write a working example for using nite::HandTracker. In this recipe, we will show you how to control the position of the mouse cursor using the NiTE hand tracker feature and how to simulate a click event.

We are going to use the Hand Raise gesture for the tracking of hands and the Click (push) gesture for the mouse click. Also, because of the low resolution of the depth output compared to the resolution of the monitor, which results in low accuracy of the hand tracker, we decided to move the mouse depending on its distance with the starting point. This is similar to how you control your mouse with a joystick.

Note

This sample is Windows only because it uses the Microsoft Windows API.

Getting ready

Create a project in Visual Studio and prepare it for working with OpenNI and NiTE using the Create a project in Visual Studio 2010 recipe in Chapter 2, OpenNI and C++.

How to do it...

  1. Copy ReadLastCharOfLine()...

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