PlotJuggler as RVIZ PLUGIN

[CesMak]

A really nice to have plugin in RVIZ would be PlotJuggler

thus see all the stuff images etc. etc. on one screen! So no one needs to switch between a PlotJuggler and Rviz window :)

If you would develop such a feature it would be perfect :)

[facontidavide]

Hi,

First of all thanks for the suggestion. It is good to have a conversation about this kind of options and possible improvements.

It was suggested in the past to make PlotJuggler available as rqt plugin
but being frank, it is not on my agenda.

I understand the theoretical advantages, but I have two reasons for that:

1. PlotJuggler use a lot of real estate on the screen, it is hard to accommodate everything in my opinion. Few of us have a 38 inches screen ;)

2. PlotJuggler is a desktop applications with it's own plugin. ROS is supported only by plugins and it will never be a hard dependency of the code application.

If someone feels adventurous he/she can try to implement this and share the results with a PR :)

Cheers

Davide

[VictorLamoine]

We have made a simple RViz panel to draw graphs:
http://wiki.ros.org/graph_rviz_plugin

PlotJuggler has a lot more features but for simple graphs our package might be sufficient.

[facontidavide]

@VictorLamoine even if I am not supposed to help a competitor (just kidding... almost), I would like to suggest taking a look to my other package, ros_type_introspection, that allows an application like yours (and mine of course) to subscribe to ANY message and split it in individual time series.

[pfankhauser]

Sorry to chime in, but if you're interested, our plotting tool rqt_multiplot is available as rqt plugin:

http://wiki.ros.org/rqt_multiplot

-Péter

[facontidavide]

@pfankhauser

[VictorLamoine]

I have opened an issue about ROS introspection: https://gitlab.com/InstitutMaupertuis/graph_rviz_plugin/issues/11

I don't need it (now) so I won't implement it but if someone creates a merge request I'll be happy to merge it. Thanks for the tip!

[facontidavide]

This will never happen. Closing the issue