Re: [ros-users] rviz with MarkerArray

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ross A Knepper <rak@ri.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tully,
>
> The problem was that I wasn't naming my topic /foo_array. I had
> incorrectly assumed that rviz would detect from the type of the topic
> whether to subscribe to it as Marker or MarkerArray. Subscribing to /foo
> in rviz while publishing to /foo_array in my ROS node works correctly
> (although I find it a bit counterintuitive). Thanks for your help!
>
> Hi Ross,
I'm glad it working for you.

Indeed it is a little counterintuitive. I've filed a ticket here
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4672

Tully

> -ross
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>
> > Ross,
> > Can you explain a little more about what your setup is? I notice that
> > neither of your md5sums match with the ones on my system. Do you have
> local
> > changes?
> >
> > Also from the plugin topic menu I see.
> > {{{
> > visualization_msgs::Marker topic to subscribe to. _array will also
> > automatically be subscribed with type visualization_msgs::MarkerArray.
> > }}}
> > This might take care of your problem.
> >
> > Tully
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