Libtouch and more …

Today I saw this excellent HOWTO at http://ssandler.wordpress.com/mtmini/ on how to make your very own multi-touch pad, which is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen during the last two decades … *cough, cough* …

I haven’t made one myself yet, but I downloaded touchlib and I found it quite annoying that it used my built-in cam from my toshiba sattelite laptop however I plugged in another external one.

So, I did a quick fix to be able to use /dev/video1 … oh yeah, I tried this under Linux, more specifically Ubuntu, because I was lazy to setup all the libs with headers and shits under Windows.

In the CvCaptureFilter.cpp right in the void CvCaptureFilter::setParamater( … ) I added two more lines, so my version looks like this:

void CvCaptureFilter::setParameter(const char *name,
                                   const char *value)
{
   if(!capture)
   {
      if(strcmp( name, "source" ) == 0)
      {
        strcpy(source, value);
        if(strcmp( value, "cam" ) == 0)
        {
          capture = cvCaptureFromCAM( CV_CAP_ANY );
        }
        else if(strcmp( value, "cam1" ) == 0)
        {
          capture = cvCaptureFromCAM( 1 );
        }
        else
        {
          capture = cvCaptureFromAVI(value);
        }
      }
   }
}

With this done, i can just change in the “config.xml” the “source” to “cam1″ and make use of my other camera device on /dev/video1

That’s all I need

A few other thoughts … you can give an index from 0..99 to the cvCaptureFromCam( … ) and then it will try to find the first available driver for that particular device, or if you give something >=100 then it will try to use that particular driver with the first available video device; CV_CAP_ANY = 100 .