[ros-users] Should I write plugins for rqt or rviz?

[Oswald Berthold]

Dear all,

that's a very interesting discussion, incidentally i spent some time
last week to write a qwt based realtime plotter to replace rxplot
because of matplotlib performance issues, channel limitation etc.

i'm wondering, will it make sense to try and build rqt for fuerte or is
it better to go straight for groovy? i'm on debian so that makes things
a bit more complicated i guess.

bst, oswald

Christopher Berner <christopherberner at gmail.com> writes:

> Cool, that CityFlyer ground station looks pretty nice. Pity the
> code is all GTK, but maybe I can rewrite some of their work to
> integrate with the new Qt plugin framework.
>
>
> @Austin, thanks that seems like the right way to go to me also,
> now that I've started looking at the code.
>
> Thanks for the help guys!
> Christopher
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Chad Rockey
> <chadrockey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     CCNY had a ground station display with GPS and attitude
>     indicators.  I'm not sure what it's current state is or what
>     graphics library it uses, but it's worth taking a look:
>     
>     
>     http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/08/cityflyer-ground-station.
>     html
>     http://www.ros.org/doc/api/ground_station/html/files.html
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Austin Hendrix
>     <legotown at aol.com> wrote:
>     
>     
>         
>         If you want to build something like the ground station
>         functionality
>         ( http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/MPGCS ),
>         I would suggest writing two plugins for RQT: one to
>         visualize GPS data on a map, probably using the Google
>         Maps API to provide satellite imagery, and another to
>         display a roll/pitch/yaw vector as a simulated attitude
>         indicator.
>         
>         
>         -Austin
>
>         
>         
>         On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Christopher Berner
>         <christopherberner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 Hey Austin,
>             
>             
>             I'm looking to build something like MissionPlanner
>             (http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Mission)
>             , since it's Windows only and even in mono doesn't
>             run that well. I looked around at what rviz could
>             do, but it didn't seem to do controls and displays
>             like that. I'll take a look at rat too, but mainly I
>             want to visualize the roll/pitch and the GPS data on
>             a map.
>             
>             
>             Thanks!
>             Christopher
>             
>             
>             
>             On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Austin Hendrix
>             <legotown at aol.com> wrote:
>             
>             How you visualize your data is heavily dependent on
>                 what you want to visualize and how you want to
>                 display it.
>                 
>                 If you have data that's spatial or 3D, such as
>                 laser scan data or a 3D direction vector,
>                 visualizing that data in rviz is probably
>                 better. If your data is better represented as
>                 one or two variables vs time, rat may be a
>                 better visualization tool.
>                 
>                 I would look carefully at the available tools
>                 before deciding that you need to write a plugin.
>                 Rviz can already visualize direction vectors, 3D
>                 transforms, and a number of different types of
>                 sensor data. RQT already has plugins for
>                 graphing data against time, replacing the older
>                 rxplot tool.
>                 
>                 -Austin
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Berner
>                 <christopherberner at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 
>                 > I'm writing some GUI plugins for visualizing
>                 data coming off an Arducopter, and after looking
>                 through the docs and release announcement for
>                 Groovy, I'm not sure which library I should be
>                 writing plugins for. Is it recommended that
>                 plugins be written for rqt or rviz? And are
>                 there any tutorials for doing so, for the
>                 upcoming Groovy release?
>                 >
>                 > Thanks!
>                 > Christopher
>                 
>                 
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