Question

In my current project I have an ArrayList of PVectors that store xyz coordinates for 3d points. I’m passing the ArrayList to another class that manipulates it, however, I’m getting a NullPointerException when doing so. I’m assuming that one of the PVectors is null, but I checked for this by assigning any null objects to (0,0,0) and I’m still getting the error. Also, is it more effecient to have an array of PVectors or an ArrayList of PVectors? Either way I’m still getting the error. Here is the line that produces it.

 trip.pass(pointCoordinates); 

And here is the main class

import org.openkinect.*;
import org.openkinect.processing.*;

Kinect kinect;
 Trip trip;

boolean tripOn;

int w = 640;
int h = 480;
int distance = 5; 

float[] depthLookUp = new float[2048];
ArrayList pointCoordinates = new ArrayList();

float factor = 400;
float a = 0;
float angle = 0;
float frequency = .05;

void setup() {
  size(800,600,P3D);
  kinect = new Kinect(this);
  kinect.start();
  kinect.enableDepth(true);
  kinect.processDepthImage(false);
  stroke(255); 
  for (int i = 0; i < depthLookUp.length; i++) {
    depthLookUp[i] = rawDepthToMeters(i);
  }
  for(int i = 0; i < 31920; i++) {
   pointCoordinates.add(new PVector(0, 0, 0));
  }
}

void draw() {
  background(0);
  pushMatrix();
  translate(width/2 + width/3,height/2, -200);
  //add 1/3 width to account for rule of thirds 
  popMatrix();
  int[] depth = kinect.getRawDepth();
  calculate(depth);  
  if(!tripOn) {
   for(int i = 0; i < pointCoordinates.size(); i++) {
     PVector temp = (PVector) pointCoordinates.get(i);
     point(temp.x, temp.y, temp.z);
   }
  }
  if(frameCount % 10 == 0) {
    if(tripOn) {
     tripOn = false;
     trip.clear(); 
    }
    else {
     tripOn = true;
     trip.pass(pointCoordinates); 
   }
  }
  if(tripOn) trip.run();
}

void stop() {
  kinect.quit();
  super.stop();
}

I can paste more classes if it helps to clarify the problem. Thanks!

Answer 1

You are not initializing your “trip” variable and therefore a call to trip.pass(..) would throw the NullPointerException.