Starting with Kinect for Windows - SDK 1.7 - kinect

Question

I'm starting with Kinect SDK 1.7, using KinectRegion and other controls like KinectTileButton and KinectScrollViewer from the toolkit. My questions are:
How to enable KinectRegion to work with left and right hands?
Does the SDK 1.7 have something ready to work with zooming?
How to detect grip and release?
Any code available on the Internet?
Thank you!

Answer 1

To Enable the Kinect Region :
Import "Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls" project into your solution. (Use Add -> Existing Project)
Add Reference of "Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls" into your project.
Add KinectRegion into your XAML using this code :
Import/Use "Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls" in your xaml.cs file :
using Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit;
Bind the sensor chooser's current sensor to the KinectRegion :
var regionSensorBinding = new Binding("Kinect") { Source = this.sensorChooser };
BindingOperations.SetBinding(this.kinectRegion, KinectRegion.KinectSensorProperty,
regionSensorBinding);
I don't get what you mean about "zooming". Please give more detail.
To detect hand gripping and hand release, you can add "AddHandPointerGripHandler" and "AddHandPointerGripReleaseHandler" to your KinectRegion. Please take a look to the KinectScrollViewer.cs.
You can explore the code about the hand pointer and stuff from the "Kinect Developer Toolkit Browser App".

Answer 2

As far as I can remember, KinectRegion works with both hand and automatically detects which one is the main one.
The grip and release detection is also automatic on KinectScrollViewer controls.
About the zooming I have no idea.
You'll find good tutorial on Kinect SDK 1.7 Interactions features on this link

Answer 3

Absolutely outstanding course is on the links below:
The first part shows the basic of Kinect SDK
The second part is similiar to firs part, but with use of MS Blend
And the third part is tutorial for interaction stream, where you can get information of both hands.
But if you´d like to use both hand at Kinect region, you have to edit Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls -> KinectRegion.cs -> line 1000 (more info in MSDN Blog question)
It helped to me! (I have the same problem)!
For Grip detection is available in kinectRegion -> kinectRegion.HandPointers[idex of hand(0 is left, 1 is right)].IsInGripInteraction - it´s bool - I added some code:
private Skeleton []skeleton;
private void kinect_SkeletonFrameReady(object sender, SkeletonFrameReadyEventArgs e)
{
using (SkeletonFrame sf = e.OpenSkeletonFrame())
{
if (sf != null && this.skeleton != null) // check that a frame is available
{
sf.CopySkeletonDataTo(this.skeleton); // get the skeletal information in this frame
}
}
}
sensor.SkeletonFrameReady += new EventHandler<SkeletonFrameReadyEventArgs>(kinect_SkeletonFrameReady);
foreach (var sk in skeleton)
{
if (sk.TrackingId == 0) continue;
else
{
if (kinectRegion.HandPointers[0].IsInGripInteraction == true)
{
.......
}
}
}