Testing your application

Here comes the point you want to test how your application works. At this moment, we're not going to use any real tracking device; instead, we will use ConsoleSource, a built-in module in NaviTrack, to simulate the generation of tracking data.

Testing procedure

• Download the config files in the previous page: Send.txt and Receive.txt (you can rename them as xml files but it's not necessary)
• On your computer, create two shell terminal windows
• In both terminal, change directory (cd) to your NaviTrack-build directory
• In one terminal, run this:

./myapp send.xml
and then press 1

• In the other terminal, run this command:

./myapp receive.xml
and then press 1

• Have the input focus for the terminal running the sending process. Press some keys on the keyboard (see next section) to generate simulated tracking data.
  • You should see the data update in the other terminal (the receiving side)
  • All received data will be also saved into a file named file-out.txt in the same directory where you run your application

How to use ConsoleSource

On page 33 of this pdf file:
http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/opentracker/html/howto_opentracker.pdf you will find all possible functions and their default keys on your keyboard for using ConsoleSource.