Re: [ros-users] rviz is moving to Qt, preview available

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Subject: Re: [ros-users] rviz is moving to Qt, preview available
Check that,

I was wrong about having to update versions, it was something that I had
mis-configured with my system.

rviz_qt works without a problem.

~mc

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 17:37, Michael Carroll <>wrote:

> If you want to get rviz_qt working on OS X, and you are currently
> following the instructions on the wiki (
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/electric/Installation/OSX/Homebrew), you may need
> to update the following packages.
>
>
>    - laser_pipeline to 1.4.0
>    - geometry to 1.7.1

>
> There are a few fixes that have been rolled in, but aren't in the electric
> install yet, as far as I can tell.
>
> I built rviz_qt from a fresh ROS install this afternoon, and that's all
> that I had to touch up.
>
> ~mc
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:11, William Woodall <> wrote:
>
>> Rviz_qt is recently known to work on OS X and all of the ros_gui
>> components about a month ago were also working on OS X. Let us know if
>> you have trouble.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Dirk Thomas <> wrote:
>>
>> >> If I want to contribute a matplotlib plugin, shall I wait for your
>> Python API? I have successfully installed rviz_qt on OS X 10.6, but not
>> original rviz. Most of the errors are from wx, and I'm not
>> >> going to waste my time on installing old wx GUI tools. However I
>> really need rxplot at the moment.
>> >
>> > If you want rxplot-like functionality without wxWidgets you might want
>> to try the newly developed ROS GUI.
>> > I can't promise anything for OS X, but if there are problems I suspect
>> them to be fixed fast.
>> >
>> > For more information see:
>> > - the SIG "ROS GUI": http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/ROS%20GUI
>> > - posts on the mailing list:
>> https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20111022.152853.6ab39e40.en.html
>> >
>> > Dirk
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