On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:32 AM, koen buys wrote: > On 7 February 2011 18:11, Ken Conley wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:51 AM, koen buys wrote: >>> On 7 February 2011 15:32, Steven Bellens >>> wrote: >>>> 2011/2/7 koen buys : >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I'm including the image_view package (which is in its own launch file) >>>>> in another launch file, when I launch this second launch file it seems >>>>> that the image_view is executed from ~/.ros/ folder and also saves >>>>> it output there. Is this default behavior? I would like that my >>>>> included launch files also start from the $PWD location. >>>> >>>> There is the cwd attribute for node elements: >>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/roslaunch/XML/node >>>> >>>> I was looking for the same thing two days ago :) >>>> >>>> Steven >>>> >>> >>> I'm still not getting it to work (Steven mentioned he had the same problem): >>> >>> process[prosilica_driver_584-2]: started with pid [2901] >>> process[prosilica_584_image_proc-3]: started with pid [2903] >>> Roslaunch got a 'No such file or directory' error while attempting to run: >>> >>> gnome-terminal -x >>> /home/koen/ros/private-kul-ros-pkg/human_motion_capt/opencv/image_tools/bin/image_view >>> image:=prosilica_584/image_color __name:=prosilica_viewer_color_584 >>> __log:=/home/koen/.ros/log/1e298f1e-32c9-11e0-b3e0-0024e8be2dfe/prosilica_viewer_color_584-4.log >>> >>> Please make sure that all the executables in this command exist and have >>> executable permission. This is often caused by a bad launch-prefix. >>> >>> Without the cwd="node" it will work just fine. Or do I see the syntax >>> here incorrectly and does the "node" need to be a name of a specific >>> node? >> >> 'node' is the correct syntax, but I'm not sure I understand the >> problem well enough to diagnose.  Also, the 'node' syntax does not >> give you $PWD behavior -- there is no way to specify that.   'node' >> sets cwd to the directory of the node being launched. >> >>  - Ken > > currently it is still executed from the ~/.ros  folder instead of the > folder where the roslaunch command is executed (=PWD or CWD) Are you sure that it's executing in ~/.ros and not image_tools/? You can verify this by looking at the roslaunch log file. You should see something like: [roslaunch][INFO] 2011-02-07 09:49:31,806: process[rosout-1]: cwd will be [/Users/kwc/.ros] Either way, as I mentioned before, roslaunch does not have an option for PWD/CWD behavior. - Ken