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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By : Abhijit Jana
Book Image

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By: Abhijit Jana

Overview of this book

Kinect has been a game-changer in the world of motion games and applications since its first release. It has been touted as a controller for Microsoft Xbox but is much more than that. The developer version of Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK, provides developers with the tools to develop applications that run on Windows. You can use this to develop applications that make interaction with your computer hands-free. This book focuses on developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. It is a complete end to end solution using different features of Kinect for Windows SDK with step by step guidance. The book will also help you develop motion sensitive and speech recognition enabled applications. You will also learn about building application using multiple Kinects.The book begins with explaining the different components of Kinect and then moves into to the setting up the device and getting thedevelopment environment ready. You will be surprised at how quickly the book takes you through the details of Kinect APIs. You will use NUI to use the Kinect for Natural Inputs like skeleton tracking, sensing, speech recognizing. You will capture different types of stream, and images, handle stream event, and capture frame. Kinect device contains a motorized tilt to control sensor angles, you will learn how to adjust it automatically. The last part of the book teaches you how to build application using multiple Kinects and discuss how Kinect can be used to integrate with other devices such as Windows Phone and microcontroller.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building gesture-enabled controls


Gesture-enabled control is one of the common components of gesture-enabled applications. The controls that we generally use for any applications such as button control and checkbox control do not have built-in support for gestures. The interaction medium for gestures is different than a regular mouse or keyboard. So, to build an application that needs user interaction and needs to execute some events such as clicking on a button or selecting a checkbox using gestures, we either need to create custom controls or need to hook up the gesture information within existing controls. Following are the tasks involved in building gesture-enabled controls:

  • Making a hand cursor

  • Identifying the objects

  • Enabling actions for objects

Making a hand cursor

The very first task for any gesture-enabled application is to build the hand cursor, which will control the application just as a mouse does for any other application. Building the hand cursor is relatively easy, where we just...