Kinect + Processing + Eclipse

--D. Thiebaut 15:21, 4 November 2011 (EDT)

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This tutorial is just a quick tech-note to install Daniel Shiffman's Processing library and make it work with Eclipse. This tutorial assumes a Mac platform.

System Snapshot

• Mac OS Lion
• MacPro
• Processing 1.5
• Eclipse Helios Service Release 1

Downloads

• Get Processing (if you don't have it already)
• Get Shiffman's openkinect.zip.
• Install Eclipse if necessary

Steps

New Project

• Open Eclipse
• Create a new Java project in Eclipse

Get the Processing core library

• Right-click (or Ctrl-click) on the project, and click on Import
• From the import menu, click 'File System
• Browse through your hierarchy of files and find the core.jar file inside the Processing.app application folder. On my machine, this was located in /Applications/Processing.app/Contents/Resources/Java
• Click on the box next to core.jar and then click on Finish

Add the core library to the build path

• Click on the project, right click on it, and select Properties
• In the Libraries tab, click Add Jar, then open up your project in the new window, and select core.jar.
• You should have a new library in your build path: