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Adding a standard msg within the custom msg [closed]

custom_message

asked 2015-09-22 17:56:51 -0500

cjusto
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Hi! I've made my custom message following the tutorial here. It works fine. What i want to do is to include some information in my message, as a twist.msg, for instance.

How can I declare this on my .msg file? Something like this? :

geometry_msgs/Twist Base
geometry_msgs/Quaternion Turret
uint8  battery

would this work when catkin making all the custom messages?

Thanks in advance.

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answered 2015-09-22 18:19:02 -0500

Mani
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That is the correct way to define the message defintion. In addition:

Make sure you add proper dependencies to geometry_msgs and std_msgs in your package's package.xml and your CMakeLists.txt files.
You need to also add those dependencies to generate_messages macro in package's CMakeLists.txt:

generate_messages( DEPENDENCIES std_msgs geometry_msgs )