NyARToolkit for Processing on Mac OS X troubleshooting

If you’ve been trying to use the NyARToolkit for Processing library on Mac OS X, you might’ve noticed that running the example sketch results in an unresponsive, empty gray window. So here’s what you need to do to fix this – add the following lines in the setup() function before any other code:

try {
    quicktime.QTSession.open();
} catch (quicktime.QTException qte) {
    qte.printStackTrace();
}

I spent something like 8 hours trying to find a solution for this problem, until i found this workaround in this bugtracker thread. Hopefully this can save you some time. Tested and worked on Mac OS X 10.5.8, Processing 1.0.7 and nyar4psg-0.2.2.

∞ Sep 28, 2009

Would you like to comment or share this post?
Tell me what you think on Twitter: