[# KINECT] HowTo: Detect the change of State of the sensor Kinect

Hi,

now that we already have the Beta 2 Kinect for Windows SDK in our hands, because we see as detected when you connect or disconnect a Kinect sensor to our computer.

Tutorial

1 Create an implementation of the WPF Application type

2 Add the following references

Microsoft.research.Kinect
< % Program Files % > \Microsoft SDKs\Kinect\v1.0 Beta2\Assemblies\Microsoft.Research.Kinect.dll

3. Then we modify our MainWindow to initialize the capture of events in the Load of the Window.

1: <Window x:Class=”ElBruno.KinectStatus.MainWindow”

2: xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”

3: xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”

4: Title=”MainWindow” Height=”350″ Width=”525″ Loaded=”WindowLoaded”>

5: <Grid>

7: </Grid>

8: </Window>

4 Implement the WindowLoad() event and in the same we subscribe to the change of State that fires when you connect one or more sensors Kinect.

   1: using System.Windows;

2: using Microsoft.Research.Kinect.Nui;

4: namespace ElBruno.KinectStatus

5: {

6: public partial class MainWindow : Window

7: {

8: public MainWindow()

9: {

10: InitializeComponent();

11: }

12:

13: private void WindowLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

14: {

15: Runtime.Kinects.StatusChanged += KinectsStatusChanged;

16: }

17:

18: private void KinectsStatusChanged(object sender, StatusChangedEventArgs e)

19: {

20: MessageBox.Show(e.Status.ToString());

21: }

22: }

23: }

5. At this point already, we can compile and run our application. After connecting and disconnecting the device several times we see something similar to the following