Have you tried using the Joy package? http://www.ros.org/wiki/joy It works automatically with a lot of different joysticks. Also, you can debug the code using gdb (from the Terminal) like any other C/C++ program. -David On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:02 AM, chris_li wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am new to ROS and I am trying to create a package to control a joystick. > I have gone through the tutorial in http://www.ros.org/wiki.  I realize I > have to mimic some of the example C code. I am writing the code in gedit. Is > it the right way to do it? If it is the right the way, I do not know how to > debug the C code in gedit? Could anyone advise please~ > > Sincerely, > Chris > -- > View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/How-to-debug-the-source-code-in-C-tp1208900p1208900.html > Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >