Author: User discussions Date: To: User discussions Subject: Re: [ros-users] header.seq field in geometry_msgs/Vector3Stamped
not incrementing under C-Turtle
> >
> With the same code built under C-turtle, the Vector3Stamped header.seq
> fields are always zero. Note that the seq field within the 'toplevel'
> header field *does* increment as before, and as before this field is
> also not touched explicitly by my code.
>
This was a bug in the boxturtle roscpp message generator. Only the
top-level header was ever supposed to get automatically populated.
> Also, when seq does get incremented
> automatically, how does this happen? When the message is published?
>
Yes. If you're using your own message I would recommend not using the seq
field at all, and instead populating your own field.
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