Thanks for sharing Brett.  I’ve always wanted a tool like this so we could document the launch files in ROS-Industrial.  I wonder if this would be useful to generate documentation on the wiki (sort of like the doxygen docs).

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From: ros-users [mailto:ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org] On Behalf Of Brett Ponsler via ros-users
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 3:29 PM
To: ros-users@lists.ros.org
Subject: [ros-users] Announcing roslaunch graph generator

Hello everyone,

I thought it would be useful to be able to generate a graph of the tree of files and nodes used by a particular launch file. After not being able to find anything capable of doing this, I wrote a quick python script to do just that and thought I would share it with everyone.

You can find the code at: https://github.com/bponsler/roslaunch_to_dot

It's fairly simple to use, but feel free to message me if you have any questions, issues, or suggestions for improvements.

Enjoy,

-Brett

Brett Ponsler
Principal Software Engineer, iRobot Corporation
WPI Computer Science BS 2009, MS 2011