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Hi,
I don't want to publish messages in while(ros::ok) loop, but rather when an interrupt is called. How can I do that? I'm completely new to ROS, so please try to answer, so that I could understand it correctly.
The closest thing to an "interrupt" in ROS is that ROS uses callbacks that get called when particular ROS events happen. For example, when creating a subscriber you provide a callback function that executes every time a message on a particular topic is received. You could easily publish a topic in a subscriber callback. There are also callbacks for service providers (which could also contain a publish command).
One thing you may be interested in is a Timer (Python and CPP). These allow you to specify a callback and a time period (as a ros::Duration). The callback will then be executed at the frequency specified by the time period. You can, of course, publish messages in that timer callback as well.
Asked: 2016-05-20 05:49:46 -0500
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Last updated: May 20 '16
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