[ros-users] communicating with windows

[Christian Verbeek]

> Christian,
>
> Since you are making the assumption that you have a Linux PC running
> on the robot and network access to that robot, would it make sense to
> use a web interface (like the still in
> development http://www.ros.org/wiki/web_interface) for visualization
> and control?
>
> For example, there
> is http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation_application that (and I'm only
> guessing based on name and some of the source files) looks to be the
> start of a web-based version of nav_view (or something close). Seems
> to me that gets around the cross-platform problems as, with the server
> running on Linux, there is no special cross-compiling; it also helps
> with the commercial app user base because all your customers need is a
> supported web browser (hopefully a recent version of Firefox or Chrome
> would suffice), which may be easier to support than Windows XP up to
> Windows 7, Mac OS X and Linux in all its flavors.
>
> Not saying that ROS support for Windows wouldn't be a good thing, just
> that, in this case, perhaps a web interface would be better/easier
> than getting all of ros, navigation and visualization to run on
> Windows natively.
>
> - Eric
Dear Eric,

A web interface would only do have the job. Our customers expect native
Windows apps with the known look and feel. There is also the need to
integrate ROS functionality into existing Windows applications.

Christian
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