OSX SimpleColorViewer-SFML not working

[egradman]

I’ve just received my Astra Pro, downloaded the SDK, and built the samples.

• SimpleDepthViewer-SFML works perfectly. Yay!
• Neither SimpleColorViewer-SFML nor SimpleStreamViewer-SFML work. There is no error, only a black window.
• If I open Photo Booth, I can see RGB! It looks beautiful! Why doesn’t it work with the SDK?

[josh]

Please see this post:

Color Image Not Firing On Frame Event

Based upon your comment that you can view the live color stream in Photo Booth, I am guessing that you have an Astra Pro sensor, which exposes the color stream via UVC (like a standard webcam). This is in contrast to Astra and other OpenNI-like cameras which only expose color via an SDK. See threads like: for more on the UVC color camera and differences between Astra and Astra Pro. Also, some sample code about accessing Astra Pro color: We will be releasing an update to the Astra SDK tha…