Keep Leap Motion Running in Background

iaccepttheterms

Hey folks,

I don't use processing that much but i want to send gesture data from processing to Max/MSP via UDP. The transfer part works fine and Max can read the messages as well.

The only problem is that if i don't have the focus on my processing applet it stops working (when i have my focus on Max/MSP for example). Is there anyway to keep the processing applet running in the background, so my gesture data will continue updating?

Any tip or help in the right direction will be appreciated!

Thnx

(Libraries i use: LeapMotionP5 / oscp5(udp) )

colouredmirrorball

Hi,

There is a solution for this, see sample code.

import com.onformative.leap.*;
import com.leapmotion.leap.*;
import com.leapmotion.leap.Controller.PolicyFlag;


//Inits
LeapMotionP5 leap;


void setup()
{
  size(600, 600);
  leap = new LeapMotionP5(this);

  leap.getController().setPolicyFlags( PolicyFlag.POLICY_BACKGROUND_FRAMES );
  smooth();
}

Thanks to marzzzel. http://forum.processing.org/one/topic/leapmotionp5-not-working-when-window-is-not-active.html