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c#xnakinect
dudeofea
dudeofea

Reputation: 340

How to restart a Kinect

So I'm writing an XNA app using the Kinect SDK and when my game changes from the game screen to another screen, I stop the Kinect by using

sensor.Stop();
sensor.Dispose();

And while it does work it has considerable lag and makes my game look unresponsive for at least 10 seconds. Then after that screen I go back to a game screen again but with different settings. So I use

//set all my event handlers
sensor.blahStream += myFunction;
sensor.Start();

Is this the best way to restart a Kinect?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 524

Answers (1)

dudeofea
dudeofea

Reputation: 340

Just fiddled around some more, putting the stopping on a separate thread seems to work.

stopGameThread = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(stopGame));
stopGameThread.Start();

that calls this method:

void stopGame(object sender)
{
    gScreen.sensor.Stop();
    gScreen.sensor.Dispose();
    running = false;
}

gScreen is the game screen contained in this game screen wrapper.

If anyone has any better answers feel free to post them.

Upvotes: 1

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