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

Fri Dec 23 17:39:43 UTC 2011

Sorry for not responding earlier, I had reported these a while back by
reopening a related ticket:

https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/5216

Looks like one way or the other it is fixed now though.

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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Ye Cheng <cnhzcy14 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your tips Dorian. I have submitted a ticket with the patch:
> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/5316
>
> And you are right,
>>
>> import PyQt4.Qwt5 as Qwt
>>
> is not necessary.
>
> Cheers,
> Ye
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Dorian Scholz <scholz at sim.tu-darmstadt.de
> > wrote:
>
>>  Hi Ye,
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much Michael! It works! Now I can play with rosgui. I have
>> tried two plugins which I need very much at the moment: rosgui_plot,
>> rosgui_pose_view.
>>
>> Great to hear that you are getting some use out of rosgui already!
>> Please be aware though, that the rosgui_plot plugin is not using the ros
>> msg header timestamps at the moment.
>> So the data is shown as equidistant data points. As long as your data is
>> measured/generated at a constant rate you should have no problem with that.
>> This should be changed in the future, but I don't know when I'll get to
>> that, so feel free to supply patches if you like ;-)
>>
>> However with some changes:
>>
>> I think the qwt in rosdep.yaml should be pyqwt;
>>
>> As I don't have OSX I don't know about the correct package names for
>> homebrew, but I assume you are right.
>> I would guess it should be like this:
>> python-qwt5-qt4: pyqwt
>> python-qt4-dev: pyqt
>> Maybe your or William can confirm this and I'll commit it.
>>
>>
>> and I also change
>>>
>>> import  Qwt
>>>
>> to
>>
>>> import PyQt4.Qwt5 as Qwt
>>>
>>  This should not be necessary and would break the compatibility with
>> PySide as alternative Python bindings.
>> The module "Qwt" is supplied by rosgui.QtBindingHelper as an alias for
>> either PyQt4.Qwt5 or PySideQwt depending on your available bindings.
>>
>>
>> I installed pyopengl manually by
>>
>>> sudo pip install pyopengl
>>>
>> and this could be in rosdep.yaml
>>
>> If there is no package for pyopengl on homebrew this would be a valid
>> solution.
>> Maybe you can supply a patch for the rosdep.yaml containing this?
>>
>> Happy holidays,
>> Dorian
>>
>>
>> Then I have  rosgui_plot and rosgui_pose_view functioning well:
>>
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DcgROGYLM1gif2_kMXVgatMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
>>
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7GZWt_cAv-_NVPNaiC4qSdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
>>
>> Since I have just tried them, I'll create a patch for them soon. And also
>> try to create a plugin for rviz.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Michael Carroll <
>> carroll.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> William had to update the rdmanifest file, so the checksum is no longer
>>> matching.
>>>
>>>  If you re-run this command:
>>>
>>> wget http://kforge.ros.org/rososx/homebrew/raw-file/tip/electric/rosdep.yaml -O ~/.ros/rosdep.yaml
>>>
>>>
>>>  It should fix the checksum issue and install without a problem.
>>>
>>>  ~mc
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:28, Dorian Scholz <scholz at sim.tu-darmstadt.de
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Maybe you can run
>>>>
>>>> $ rosdep check rviz_qt
>>>> and
>>>> $ rosdep check rosgui_rviz
>>>>
>>>> to check where this error is coming from.
>>>>
>>>> I just filed a bug about a problem in the rviz_qt rosdep.yaml, but this
>>>> should not affect you, if you are on OSX.
>>>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/5312
>>>> After I fixed that locally, I got not errors when running
>>>> $ rosmake --rosdep-install rosgui_rviz
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Dorian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/21/2011 04:31 PM, Ye Cheng wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have one problem here. When I try to compile rosgui_rviz by
>>>>
>>>>> rosmake --rosdep-install rosgui_rviz
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I always get:
>>>>
>>>>> rosdep install failed: Failed to load a rdmanifest from
>>>>> https://kforge.ros.org/rosrelease/viewvc/sourcedeps/nvidia-cg/nvidia-cg-3.0_February2011.rdmanifest,
>>>>> and no alternate URI given
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have rviz_qt installed before. But now if I try to install it again,
>>>> I will get the same problem:
>>>>
>>>>> rosdep install failed: Failed to load a rdmanifest from
>>>>> https://kforge.ros.org/rosrelease/viewvc/sourcedeps/nvidia-cg/nvidia-cg-3.0_February2011.rdmanifest,
>>>>> and no alternate URI given
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However we do have
>>>> https://kforge.ros.org/rosrelease/viewvc/sourcedeps/nvidia-cg/nvidia-cg-3.0_February2011.rdmanifest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Dirk Thomas <mail at dirk-thomas.net>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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