Hi Dave,

these are great news!
I tested it today and it seems to work fine.
So I went on and made a first simple integration as a rosgui plugin.
The plugin just loads the rviz_qt lib, instantiates the 
VisualizationFrame and puts it into a dockwidget for rosgui.
The code is in the rosgui git and a screenshot of it running next to 
some other plugins can be seen here:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8414/rosguirviz.png

I came across one problem though. When I closed the plugin and reopened 
it, an assertion is failing:
> python: 
> /tmp/buildd/ros-electric-visualization-common-1.6.2/debian/ros-electric-visualization-common/opt/ros/electric/stacks/visualization_common/ogre/build/ogre_src_v1-7-3/OgreMain/include/OgreSingleton.h:80: 
> Ogre::Singleton<T>::Singleton() [with T = Ogre::LogManager]: Assertion 
> `!ms_Singleton' failed.
> Aborted
I have not yet investigated this any further. I'll file a bug report 
when I know more...

Cheers,
Dorian


On 12/01/2011 06:29 PM, Dave Hershberger wrote:
> Rviz is moving from the wxWidgets library to the Qt library as of the 
> ROS Fuerte release.  This transition to Qt will improve RViz 
> compatibility on more platforms and better integrate with future GUI 
> tools.  For more information on the motivation for these changes, 
> please refer to the RViz and ROS GUI SIGs:
>
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/rviz
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/ROS%20GUI
>
> This is a fairly big change to the code.  The internal plugin API 
> is changed and the Python API will be different (when I get 
> it implemented).  The GUI appears and behaves mostly the same as the 
> wx version, most of the differences coming from the differences in 
> style between wx and Qt and not from intentional changes.  For a list 
> of major changes, see visualization_experimental/ChangeList 
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/visualization_experimental/ChangeList>.
>
> An early but fairly complete, version of the new code is available 
> in the temporary "visualization_experimental 
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/visualization_experimental>" stack, which 
> works with ROS Electric.  It is available in 
> the ros-electric-visualization-experimental debian package.  This 
> version does not have python support implemented yet, but all the 
> built-in display types, tools, and view controllers work.   I 
> encourage rviz users to try the new version (called rviz_qt for now) 
> before Fuerte so I can fix bugs and make the transition as smooth as 
> possible.
>
> Please report bugs and feature requests to the same place as usual for 
> rviz, but with "qt" in the keywords field, like so: report a bug 
> <https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/newticket?component=visualization&type=defect&keywords=qt>, 
> request a feature 
> <https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/newticket?component=visualization&type=enhancement&keywords=qt>, 
> list existing tickets 
> <https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=visualization&keywords=%7Eqt>.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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