thanks William,
installing Gemini & [ultraleap] made it work!
only just now i have time to follow up on your suggestions.
i'll also test on my old Windows 10 machine.
report of that will follow asap.
rolf
William Brent schreef op 16-04-2023 1:58:
> I just set up my Windows machine to match your system as closely as possible,
> and all still works as expected with [leapmotion] for me. The only difference
> is that I'm on Windows 10 rather than 11.
>
> After reading your message again, I see that you're occasionally getting some
> tracking data, so most of what I said in my previous post is irrelevant. But
> before I dig any further: are you *sure* you're clicked on Pd to make it the
> foreground application when testing [leapmotion]? If you're clicked on the
> desktop or any other window/app to lose focus, then tracking data will stop
> flowing. And if those focus gained/lost messages aren't making sense with the
> actual clicking you're doing, that's what we need to look into. Maybe I can
> just disable the need for focus entirely...
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 2:53 PM William Brent <william.br...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi rolf, there are a few confusing things in the LEAP world across
> Linux/Mac/Windows, but when I was working on this a few months back I did
> successfully get both [leapmotion] and [ultraleap] working on multiple
> Windows 10 machines with an original Leap Motion Controller. That said, since
> you're on Windows 11 there could be some new wrinkles. But here are some
> starting points to check:
>
> First, since you're using [leapmotion] and the old 2.3.1 LEAP software, did
> you see the Windows notes at the bottom of the INSTALL.txt in the GitHub
> repo? You can see that here [1]. Maybe running that dpinst64.exe installer
> will resolve things, though I'm not too confident of that since you're
> already using your device successfully with other software.
>
> Second, have you tried installing the latest LEAP software (Gemini 5.7.2)
> instead of the old 2.3.1? The latest software supports the new UltraLeap
> controller as well as the original LEAP Motion Controller (which is what you
> seem to be using). If you install that, you can try using the [ultraleap]
> external instead, and hopefully things "just work." It's also available via
> deken.
>
> If both of those fail, my next guess would be that there are additional .dll
> dependencies as of Windows 11. If that's the case, you'd see messages in Pd's
> console warning that "The specified module could not be found." About the
> focus gained/lost messages, those should occur when you click on or away from
> Pd to make it the foreground application or not. If you're getting spammed
> with a bunch of these messages and aren't changing application focus, then
> there's an issue I should look into. That worked as expected for me in my
> Windows tests back in January.
>
> Let me know if any of this gets you unstuck. I was really hoping that these
> updates to [leapmotion] would make it usable on all platforms for at least a
> little while, so I'd love to get this working on Windows 11.
> William
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 12:41 PM <ro...@dds.nl> wrote:
>
> i finally got my hands on a Mac:
>
> installed the same Pd, leapmotion software, [leapmotion] for Mac.
>
> with my controller i got immediate result.
>
> the message "focus gained" appeared instantly,
>
> and i could use the cursor-test: moving around and firing the bang.
>
> it really looks like there's something not right with [leapmotion] for
> Windows.
>
> (the leapmotion apps available for V2 are also working onmy Windows machine).
>
> NB fwiw, when opening leapmotion.h in Visual Studio there appears this
> message
>
> "// this project is built against LeapDeveloperKit_2.3.1+31549_mac, and
> requires the same version of libLeap.dylib"
>
> rolf
>
> ro...@dds.nl schreef op 05-04-2023 14:03:
>
> Windows 11, PD-53.1
> SDK:LeapDeveloperKit_2.3.1+31549_win
>
> PD-console:
> ---------------------------------------------
> Leap Motion Listener: Initialized
> Leap Motion Service: Connected
> Leap Motion Connected Device: LP32497879452 v1.7.0
>
> ****************
> [leapmotion] for Pd version 0.2.3
> Forked from version 0.1 by Chikashi Miyama
> Updated by William Brent (Dec 2022)
> ****************
>
> Leap Motion Service: Connected
>
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus gained
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus lost
>
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus gained
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus lost
>
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus gained
> Leap Motion Controller: Focus lost
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> i've been trying to get leapmotion-help working, with minimal succes.
> where the leapmotion diagnostic visualiser shows my hands representation all
> the time,
> [leapmotion] does not report anything from the controler,
> and now and then prints the messages focus gained/focus lost.
>
> only a few times suddenly a frame with general data showed up,
> with or without a change of position for the button in the cursor-test.
>
> why, i don't know. i cannot reproduce it, whatever i do with my hand(s).
>
> the siamese appearance of the gained/lost messages gives the impression
> (to me) there's some 'secret magic' needed for [leapmotion] to get focussed.
>
> what am i missing or doing wrong?
>
> rolf
>
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