Thanks! 2012/9/13 Jack O'Quin > Please ask these questions (preferably one at a time) on answers.ros.org. > See: > > > http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support#Guidelines_for_asking_a_question_.28Please_read_before_posting.29 > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo > wrote: > > Hi Ros people! My name is Santiago, i'm just beginning in robot-world, > and > > i'm making a client from Pharo smalltalk. My first goal is make work the > > turtle simulator from XMLRPC. > > > > So i have several questions, but right now i have two most important: > > > > Considering a remote client (without direct access to server): > > > > - How can i get the message definition related to a topic? Can i ask to > the > > topic? Does the topic answer me in the error text something about the > type? > > > > - Is any definition of a common TCPROS package to take as example of > topic > > usage? > > > > In this case, i'd spend a lot of time today trying to send messages to > the > > turtle throgh the velocity topic without any response (no movement, no > > error, no feedback at all) and i tried with the logs, but without any > useful > > data. > > > > The process i'm following is: > > > > execute roscore > > execute turtle node > > > > then, from the client > > > > register as publisher in Velocity topic > > > > with the IP:PORT recived connect to the node with a TCP/ip connection > > sending a message with: > > > > header > > type: master getTopicTypeRelated:/turtle1/command_velocity; > #here i > > get the topicType from getTopicTypes > > topic: /turtle1/command_velocity; > > latching: false; > > callerId: anArbitraryId; > > messageDefinition: 'float32 linear > > float32 angular'; > > md5Sum:'9d5c2dcd348ac8f76ce2a4307bd63a13'. > > > > in the body of the request i tried with float numbers (2.0 0.0) for > example. > > > > All this data in binary. > > > > I browse a lot of roscpp, rospy and rosjava trying to find how them > create > > and serialize the data, but i dont find meaningful differences. Maybe i'm > > missing steps? > > > > > > Thank you very much! > > > > > > Santiago. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-users mailing list > > ros-users@code.ros.org > > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > > -- > joq > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >