Switching between reading from a live Kinect or from a RGBD dataset for debugging

1. Discussion

Due to the difficulty of properly debugging real-time applications, as all those involving robotics sensors, it becomes more convenient to do development offline (on a dataset saved to disk) and, only when it seems all work fine, switch to the real thing. 

The following example will show you how to do it in a way that doesn't affect your program structure: switching will be controlled by a simple bool variable.

Read here about the robotics dataset "rawlog" format and here about recording Kinect datasets.

2. The code

See the entire example in: http://mrpt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/kinect_online_offline_demo/