How to make rostopic listen to custom messages

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asked 2011-08-14 14:10:08 -0500

David Lu

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updated 2011-08-14 21:54:13 -0500

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I've created my own message type, and have a C++ program generating messages. When I attempt to listen to the messages using rostopic echo, I get the following message.

ERROR: Cannot load message class for [mocap_msgs/LocalMocapFrame]. Are your messages built?

My messages are built and compiled. Why do I still get this error message?

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answered 2011-08-14 15:14:38 -0500

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updated 2011-08-15 09:21:55 -0500

Are you sure that rostopic is running with the same ROS_PACKAGE_PATH and that the messages are built correctly? A quick test:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import roslib
roslib.load_manifest('mocap_msgs')
import mocap_msgs.msg

print mocap_msgs.msg.LocalMocapFrame

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Excellent. Thank you. Two things: 1) It should be mocap_msgs.msg.LocalMocapFrame 2) The problem was a missing dependency in the manifest. However, rosmake-ing the package showed no errors. Is that a bug? David Lu ( 2011-08-15 08:26:31 -0500 )edit

sounds like a bug kwc ( 2011-08-15 09:22:05 -0500 )edit

https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3642 David Lu ( 2011-08-15 09:46:20 -0500 )edit

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