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I was wondering if there is a way to programmatically add and remove Displays in rviz? I would think that if the feature existed it would come in the form of a topic or service that a node can publish to or call to add or remove a Display of a certain DisplayType.
rviz does not have an API to do that currently. I suggest that you file a feature request ticket.
I made a generic librviz node a while ago that has a service interface for adding or removing any rviz display and changing any property.
I'm not sure what the current state of it is, it doesn't really belong in the 'rviz_camera_stream' project. I test it out and perhaps fork it into a different repo, and update this later.
A dynamic dynamic reconfigure system that exposed all the controls would be a nice addition to it.
This may not be relevant to you, but RVIZ does support the saving and loading of configurations (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz/UserGuide#Configurations). This is most relevant in launch files so that you could launch some code and have everything already set up.
Example:
<launch>
<node pkg="rviz" type="rviz" name="rviz" args="-d $(find package_name)/config/rviz_config.vcg" />
</launch>
Asked: 2011-04-13 02:15:38 -0600
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Last updated: Sep 10 '17
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