interactive launch

asked 2011-07-14 03:44:18 -0500

Dimitar Simeonov
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updated 2014-01-28 17:10:02 -0500

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Does ROS have a way to interactively start-stop nodes? For example - taking a bunch of rosnodes and having a start-stop button next to each and showing their output?

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answered 2011-07-14 08:37:04 -0500

sglaser
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updated 2011-07-14 10:12:24 -0500

Hi Dimitar,

I just started on something called rxlaunch, which does exactly that. It's still in active development, but may already be useful to you.

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You can get rxlaunch from its kforge page. Just checkout the mercurial repository and run rxlaunch.py. You may also need to install PySide.

Some things that don't work yet (2011-07-14):

~~It doesn't load parameters, so you should roslaunch the launch file first, then use rxlaunch~~ (fixed 2011-07-14)
Everything is launched locally
It's hard-coded to use the master at http://localhost:11311

When things go wrong, just file a ticket.

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that is great, I might use it in the near future - meanwhile a UI comment: for some processes it might be usefull to see the standard output as part of the rxlaunch gui.

Dimitar Simeonov ( 2011-07-14 10:58:37 -0500 )edit

Thanks for the feature request--I'll put it on my list

sglaser ( 2011-07-14 12:47:21 -0500 )edit

Note: I just fixed anonymous checkouts. Just run `hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/rxlaunch/hg rxlaunch` to get the code

sglaser ( 2011-07-14 13:02:32 -0500 )edit

I'm making now rqt_launch, a roslaunch GUI based on rqt framework that's introduced since Groovy. http://www.ros.org/wiki/rqt_launch. As of today only source install is possible (from http://goo.gl/pC7Mv) but will soon be available in debian pkg.