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

[Ye Cheng]

Hi Dave,

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.

Thanks,
Ye

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Dave Hershberger <hersh at willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Rviz is moving from the wxWidgets library to the Qt library as of the ROS
> Fuerte release.  This transition to Qt will improve RViz compatibility on
> more platforms and better integrate with future GUI tools.  For more
> information on the motivation for these changes, please refer to the RViz
> and ROS GUI SIGs:
>
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/rviz
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/ROS%20GUI
>
> This is a fairly big change to the code.  The internal plugin API
> is changed and the Python API will be different (when I get
> it implemented).  The GUI appears and behaves mostly the same as the
> wx version, most of the differences coming from the differences in style
> between wx and Qt and not from intentional changes.  For a list of major
> changes, see visualization_experimental/ChangeList<http://www.ros.org/wiki/visualization_experimental/ChangeList>
> .
>
> An early but fairly complete, version of the new code is available in the
> temporary "visualization_experimental<http://www.ros.org/wiki/visualization_experimental>"
> stack, which works with ROS Electric.  It is available in
> the ros-electric-visualization-experimental debian package.  This
> version does not have python support implemented yet, but all the
> built-in display types, tools, and view controllers work.   I encourage
> rviz users to try the new version (called rviz_qt for now) before Fuerte
> so I can fix bugs and make the transition as smooth as possible.
>
> Please report bugs and feature requests to the same place as usual for
> rviz, but with "qt" in the keywords field, like so: report a bug<https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/newticket?component=visualization&type=defect&keywords=qt>,
> request a feature<https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/newticket?component=visualization&type=enhancement&keywords=qt>,
> list existing tickets<https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=visualization&keywords=%7Eqt>
> .
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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