How to update a robot visual enable check box in Rviz from a running node (c++)

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It would be great if rviz had a set of topics and services for controlling all aspects of the user interface to the same ability manual clicking does. But short of that you can create a custom rviz render panel using librviz http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/librvi... or http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/rviz_p... for python.

Any rviz plugin can be added with createDisplay(), and then any property that is normally available through the ui can be changed with subProp()- and you could then hook up your own subscribers or services to change those properties.