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Hi Martin,

First a big thank you for your fast response.

It's nice of you to be ok having a closer look on code with a unit we would send you.

I've sent an email to backer Robert Sweetman 3 days ago, who was ok to send his unit to Dr Tagliasacchi before he doubt on if it worth his time.

No answer yet, but with that famous Brexit, as a citizen of Her Majesty The Queen of (Un?)United Kingdom, he must be so sad or so happy, depending on his vote !

Other people were ready to send their (or one of their) unit(s) : 10000 units were manufactured as we can read on Lai's career resume !

I don't know exactly the function of the win_cursor_plus component, but there's a win_cursor_plus_fallback which is launched if :

"if (IsWindows8OrGreater())

    child_module_path = executable_path + slash + "win_cursor_plus" + slash + "win_cursor_plus" + extension0;

else

    child_module_path = executable_path + slash + "win_cursor_plus_fallback" + slash + "win_cursor_plus" + extension0;"

It seems it must receive udp messages of tracking data coming from track_plus process.

I wonder why they choose TUIO csharp cursor instead of TUIO c++ cursor ? Wouldn't it be easier to code everything in c++ to avoid the use of .net framework ?

It seems they've coded win_cursor_plus in csharp to be compliant with csharp TUIO. Maybe at first, c++ TUIO wasn't available to do what they want with cursor ?

All we know is that v0.55b was running a functionnal cursor as seen on Alexandru Bauer's youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFTmjiwmAA but noone has the source code for that build.

MJ made a Google drive of the only buggy installer, here : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B06wt0SuwL2PSDFBUk01U1ZWUkk&usp=sharing

So, now talking about the software path, here the escaping characters problem that I diagnostic here on the very last commit in Dec 2015 : Ractiv/touch_plus_source_code#36

Would you have a solution to allow running that "tasklist" command in software path with blank spaces, as it's running directly from build folder without any blank spaces ?

I remember, while testing that last commit, having maybe a TUIO cursor launched from win_cursor_plus process, but obtaining a blue message from windows 10 saying this software couldn't be run in that version of windows and that the manufacturer have had to be contacted. Maybe a manifest file problem ?

And what about hardware z-mapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping) ? Maybe Edwin Catmull the pioneer at Pixar could help us ? Maybe Ractiv has lied to us from the moment they've tested the first manufactured units with the software and saw that Etron chipset would never be accessible to any optimisation due to wrong electronic design ?

Is a full software solution possible without full hardware access ?

Is a chessboard image disparity z-mapping system a good option ?

Am I mad of still hoping to at least get a minimal working cursor as seen on Youtube ?

Well it's funny to test all their attempts on funtionnalities through the differents commits, like commit 8b60c27 on 1 Sep 2015 I've just been testing : a medium window showing a moving cloud of points and lines which look like malaxing a spagghetti mass !

What a pity Umar Nizamani's windows home pc as died because he seemed to be confident in solving the csharp process problem : "This part of the code is commented in the code which I was able to run but still wouldn't move the cursor based on my movements. I will see if I can get this working over the weekend so that even with buggy movement end users can have a controllable cursor."

I have desperately tried to recompile the very earlier commit 65abaf6 on 8 Jul 2015 : Ractiv/touch_plus_source_code#39 to maybe help someone solving the cursor problem.

And after all, a good big trackpad would be a good option but autralian backer Lachlan Pollock said : "But having briefly used the Touch+ I've got to say I enjoyed the experience and found it a lot more natural than the leap ever was on a flat surface."

It's good to be a "geek" on technology innovations !

Let's dream on what we can do sharing knowledge !

Cheers,

Christian or Touchhope at http://gharbi.me/ractiv/