That is actually kind of awesome, thanks for pointing that out Brian!

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> hi Ivan,
>
> Have you looked at rosh's bagys?
>
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosh/Overview/Bagys
>
> I don't know whether it's quite what you're looking for, but it might
> be a step in the right direction.
>
>     brian.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ivan Dryanovski
> <ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Does there exist a way view a ROS message from a file (non-rosbag)
> directly
> > in rviz? I was thinking that would be a nice addition.
> >
> > Basically, I'm looking for a C++ (or python) API that allows the user to
> > save a single message of arbitrary type to a file. The rviz message
> display
> > can then be modified to load messages from a file, in addition to the
> > existing functionality to subscribe to a topic. This could perhaps be
> > implemented using URI's, for example
> >
> > topic://scan
> >
> > vs
> >
> > file:///home/username/ros/myscan.rosmsg
> >
> > This would be useful in many situations, especially for examining large
> > saved images, 2d/3d maps, pointclouds, etc.
> >
> > Has any of this been implemented, and does anyone have comments on this
> > idea?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ivan
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