CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rviz_visual_tools

4.1.4 (2023-01-05)

  • Migrate to Ogre.h (#226)

  • Remove galactic jobs since they are deprecated (#232)

  • Add arbitrary color option to publishCuboid (#227)

  • Bump clang-format version to 14 (#228)

  • Contributors: Sebastian Castro, Stephanie Eng, Vatan Aksoy Tezer

4.1.3 (2022-07-18)

  • Humble CI and formatting updates (#220)

  • Minor typo fix (#222)

  • Add a method to publish a plane using the normal and distance (#221) Co-authored-by: AndyZe <andyz@utexas.edu>

  • Fix description of plane functions (#219)

  • Update black version (#218)

  • Add option to never wait for subscriber (#217)

  • Contributors: Marq Rasmussen, Stephanie Eng, Vatan Aksoy Tezer

4.1.2 (2021-12-13)

  • Fix faulty templated constructor (#211)

  • Make sure to add all dependencies to the package.xml (#209) Otherwise it will fail to build on the buildfarm.

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Vatan Aksoy Tezer

4.1.1 (2021-10-07)

  • Re-enable RemoteControl functionality (#205) * use condition_variable to be more thread safe * Drop executor from constructor, deprecate old one * Fix RemoteControl usage in demo * Use SystemDefaultsQOS for RemoteControl subscriber * Add RvizVisualToolsGui dashboard to rviz config, correct view

  • Add pluginlib dependency. (#203)

  • Fix package dependencies and cmake export (#202)

  • Rename node_executable to executable (#200)

  • Contributors: Davide Faconti, Henning Kayser, Jafar Abdi, Steven! Ragnarök, Vatan Aksoy Tezer

4.1.0 (2021-09-14)

  • Fixes for new ros2 branch (#198)

  • Fix include deprecation warning

  • Enable Galactic and Rolling CI (#190) * minor compile fixes

  • Fixes & improvements for deleting markers (#188) * Added RvizVisualTools method to delete all markers in a namespace * Fixed deleteAllMarkers for all namespaces * Added getters for marker ID’s

  • Move waitForSubscriber function to header file (#185)

  • Contributors: Henning Kayser, Jafar Abdi, Nathan Brooks, Vatan Aksoy Tezer, Wyatt Rees

4.0.0 (2021-04-09)

  • Fix warning about deprecation (#180) rclcpp::executor::FutureReturnCode was removed

  • Update to offer shared_ptr to create_timer

  • Fix rviz_visual_tools_gui (#147)

  • Compilation for Windows (#143)

  • Remove stl file in preparation for LFS setup (#140)

  • Add function deleteMarker: deletes marker for given namespace and id (#137)

  • fix waitForSubscriber time (#142)

  • Eloquent cleanup (#135) * some misc cleanup of the imarker simple lib * actually reset marker counts * changes for using IMarker simple as a library

  • Fix rviz warnings about scale and uninitialized quaternions (#129)

  • Normalize interactive marker quaternions. (#132)

  • normalize before publish (#131)

  • New helper function getIdentityPose() (#122)

  • For ABCD planes: better comments, ensure the plane equation is satisfied. (#120) Co-Authored-By: Henning Kayser <henningkayser@picknik.ai>

  • Make rviz_visual_tools publish triangle mesh and tf_visual_tools clean published transforms (#117) * Add clearAllTransform method to tf_visual_tools * Add new function to publish mesh marker from triangles and vertices

  • Publish plane from Ax+By+Cz+D=0 equation (#119)

  • Fixed publishCylinder namespace (#109)

  • Remove default arguments to make function calls not ambiguous (#112)

  • Initialize quaternions in demo to avoid warning (#111)

  • Fix node type in demo launch files (#110)

  • Use LOGNAME for logging re:moveit styel (#106)

  • Contributors: AndyZe, Bjar Ne, Dave Coleman, Jafar Abdi, Mike Lautman, Mori, MoriKen, Nathan Brooks, Sean Yen, Victor Lamoine, Yu Yan, d-walsh, hshose

3.7.0 (2018-11-26)

  • Fix Eigen::Affine3d for Melodic (using Eigen::Isometry3d) (#105)

  • Improve documentation (#100)

  • Fix some catkin_lint warnings and rename targets output (#98)

  • Update README Kinetic to Melodic (#102)

  • Add Melodic build farm badges (#99)

  • Add ccache support (#93)

  • no ros::spinOnce() (#82)

  • Deprecate old functions for ROS Melodic (#91)

  • Improve package with catkin_lint (#89)

  • Add OGRE dependency (#88)

  • Automoc requires at least cmake version 2.8.6 (#86)

  • Fix Travis badge (#84)

  • The code already uses AUTOMOC (#76)

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Jochen Sprickerhof, Michael Görner, Simon Schmeisser, Victor Lamoine

3.6.1 (2018-05-31)

  • Actually link qt code into the gui library (#74)

  • Contributors: Michael Goerner

3.6.0 (2018-01-15)

  • Addresses Issue #49 - Default Constructor Not Nodelet Friendly

  • Added option to pass in a node handle in the constructor that defaults to

  • Reset marker should publish initialized quaternion

  • Improve code quality - add const, static, C++11 features, clang-format

  • Create demo executable for IMarkerSimple

  • Improve memory efficiency of functions

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Geoffrey Chiou, Victor Lamoine

3.5.1 (2017-12-25)

  • Normalize quaternion before storage

  • Fix for ambiguous function call to publishAxis

  • Add linking to visualization tools library for imarker_simple

  • Added arrow pub to take two points

  • Document clang-tidy

  • catkin lint

  • roslint applied

  • Clang-format again

  • Clang-tidy ALL

  • C++11 optimizations

  • Fix deprecated calls to convertFromXYZRPY

  • Add new convertPoseSafe() function

  • New convertFromXYZRPY() function to avoid deprecation warning

  • Allow to enable frame locking in the markers/markers arrays

  • Update license year

  • IMarkerSimple: set name and pose

  • New printTransformFull() function

  • Removed deprecated warning

  • New class for easily using 6dof imarkers

  • More options to tf_visual_tools

  • Update README.md

  • Contributors: Andy McEvoy, Dave Coleman, Fadri Furrer, Victor Lamoine

3.4.1 (2017-06-20)

  • Add dependency on QT5 for Ubuntu Zesty/Lunar support

  • Allow publishPath with std_msgs::ColorRGBA

  • Make INFO msg DEBUG

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Victor Lamoine

3.4.0 (2016-11-02)

  • Consolidated publishing into RemoteReciever class

  • Improve console output

  • Add RvizGui and KeyTool

  • Enable remote control from withing rviz_visual_tools

  • New publishPath() function

  • Shorten number of lines printTranslation() requires

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

3.3.0 (2016-09-28)

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Make batch publishing enabled by default

  • Removed enableInternalBatchPublishing()

  • Removed triggerInternalBatchPublishAndDisable()

  • Deprecated triggerBatchPublish() in favor of function name trigger()

  • Deprecated triggerBatchPublishAndDisable()

  • Ability to trigger every x markers that are in queue, ideal in for loops

  • New waitForMarkerPub() function that takes timeout

  • Add std::move

  • Added Docker for Kinetic

  • Added delay to demo to allow rviz to load in Docker

  • Change the sphere marker type from SPHERE_LIST to SPHERE - This makes irregularly scaled spheres (i.e. ellipsoids) to be rendered correctly.

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Miguel Prada

3.2.0 (2016-07-14)

  • Catkin depend on eigen and tf conversions

  • New warning

  • Added EulerConvention enum

  • Added new convertFromXYZRPY() function

  • Added new tests

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Enrique Fernandez

3.1.0 (2016-07-06)

  • Switched publishPath() to use cylinders

  • Added new publishLineStrip() function

  • Added new publishPath() functions

  • Added new publishAxis() functions

  • Update screenshot

  • Broke publishPath() API for recent addition - incorrect Eigen vector used

  • New publishPath() function for Affine3d

  • New publishAxis() functions that use scale

  • New publishAxisInternal() function for more efficient publishing

  • New publishAxisPath() function for showing a series of coordinate axis

  • Added warning for batch publishing when not enabled

  • Bug fix in publishLines() for id incrementing

  • New scaleToString() function

  • Bug fix for scaling in coordinate axis

  • Improved demo to have multiple scales visualized

  • Revert “Remove graph msgs”

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

3.0.0 (2016-06-29)

  • Improve Travis script

  • Upgrade to Eigen3 per ROS Kinetic requirements

  • New screenshot

  • Refactored entire scaling method - all sizes of shapes have been affected

  • Renamed scales

  • Removed const reference for primitive types in function headers

  • Cleaned up getScale() function

  • New publishSpheres function

  • Two new tests & screenshot

  • Deprecated size REGULAR

  • Number scale sizes

  • New intToRvizScale() function

  • New publishSpheres() functions for showing list of lines AND colors

  • New publishLines() functions for using LINE_LIST

  • New publishCylinder() function that uses scales

  • Bug fix for getVectorBetweenPoints() when vector is all zeros

  • New printTranslation() function

  • added intToRvizColor() for interfaces that do not directly depend on Rviz Visual Tools, such as OMPL

  • publishPath with vector of colors

  • Update demo

  • New variant of publishPath with vector of colors

  • New publishSphere() helper

  • Add eigen_stl_containers

  • Add missing breaks in switch statement

  • Add namespace to ease debugging ROS messages

  • Do not pass Eigen structures by value

  • Fix all vector<Eigen> to EigenSTL::vector_Vector3d as recommended by @VictorLamoine

  • Hide upstream package cast warning

  • Overload new operator for Eigen structures

  • Changing the angles will change the opening angle of the cone

  • Better way to turn on C++11, maybe?

  • Removed deprecated code for Kinetic

  • Began converting to C++11

  • Fix dead link to the documentation

  • New waitForMarkerPub() function

  • Fix bug in waitForSubscriber() introduced in previous commit

  • Added blocking constraint option in function waitForSubscriber

  • New publishLine() variant

  • ID for publishing rectangles

  • Optimize clearing and resizing vectors

  • Increase random color sampling attempts

  • Move variable declaration

  • Latched publisher

  • publishAxisLabeled arguments

  • Include path, boost typedef and class name are now up to date with the code.

  • New publishLine() variant

  • Optional latched publisher

  • ID for publishing rectangles

  • Optimize clearing and resizing vectors

  • Increase random color sampling attempts

  • Move variable declaration

  • publishAxisLabeled arguments order

  • Adds Publish Labeled Axis

  • Contributors: Abhijit Makhal, Dave Coleman, Naveed Usmani, Sow Papa Libasse, Victor Lamoine

2.2.0 (2016-04-28)

  • Created much better demo, added new screenshot

  • Numbered colors so that they can be matched in OMPL

  • New publishLine() function variants

  • Psychedelic mode

  • Prevent publishing empty marker arrays

  • Improved warning and error correction

  • New publishSphere function

  • Ability to set marker topic after constructor

  • Ability to force waiting for topic to connect

  • Added new posesEqual() function

  • Updated publishArrow() function

  • New publishPath function

  • New publishLine function

  • New publishCylinder that accepts two points

  • New publishText function

  • Removed redundant namespace names

  • New convertPointToPose function

  • Reduced output

  • Renamed line_marker_ to line_strip_marker_

  • Faster method for waiting for subscriber thread

  • Untested publishPath() modification

  • Fix to correctly use optional alpha color property

  • Change getColorScale to work from 0->1 instead of 0->100

  • Additional parameters to publishCuboid()

  • New color scale function for generated interpolated colors from RED->GREEN (1->100)

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

2.1.0 (2016-02-09)

  • Allow publishArrow functions to specify ID

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

2.0.3 (2016-01-10)

  • Renamed test to demo

  • Fix bug in random number generator

  • Noted a TODO

  • Documentation

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

2.0.2 (2015-12-27)

  • Formatting

  • Removed unused var

  • roslint fixes

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

2.0.1 (2015-12-05)

  • catkin lint cleanup

  • Updated travis badge

  • Updated README

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

2.0.0 (2015-12-02)

  • Updated README

  • Add badges

  • Default true for enableBatchPublishing()

  • Renamed convertXYZRPY() to convertFromXYZRPY()

  • Changed roll pitch yall convention (fix)

  • Added preliminary unit tests

  • Hide include dependencies

  • New convertToXYZRPY function

  • Decrease wait time for topics to subscribe

  • New publishSphere and publishArrow functions

  • Added new thread safe pose conversion function

  • Auto format with clang

  • New publishSphere with frame_id function

  • New print transform functions

  • Fixed RPY error

  • New convert Affine3d to roll pitch yaw function

  • New tf_visual_tools functionality to help debug transforms

  • New parameter server isEnabled feature

  • Add id for wireframe cuboids

  • Namespaced publishWireframeCuboid

  • Helper function for publishAxisLabeled

  • New getBoolMap() function

  • New convertXYZRPY() function

  • Fix warnings

  • Fixed yellow

  • Fix internal publish bug

  • Check for empty parameter

  • New delayed publishing internal mode

  • added publishCuboid function for Eigen::Affine3d

  • New string vector param reading

  • added publishCuboid function for Eigen::Affine3d

  • Show whole param path

  • Added publish plane and cone

  • Renamed to publishAxisLabled()

  • New publishWireframeRectangle function

  • Fixed publishZArrow direction

  • New publishAxisWithLabel() function

  • Removed mute functionality

  • New publishWireframeRectangle() function

  • Improved memory reuse by utilizing member variables for conversion functions

  • Fixed ordering of functions in file

  • Added alpha values to fix planning scene visualization

  • Add WireframCuboid function to show oriented bounding boxes as computed …

  • Made more function parameters passed by reference

  • Add color to wireframe

  • Add WireframCuboid function to show oriented bounding boxes as computed from PCL.

  • New generateRandomCuboid() function

  • Fixed formatting, added a PoseStamped version to publish[X|Y|Z]Arrow() functions

  • publishMesh() now has optional ID specification

  • Fixed generateRandomPose() bug

  • Added Eigen version of generateRandomPose()

  • changed floats to double in random pose struct, added publish block function to take pose

  • Updated rviz_visual_tools API

  • Deprecated publishRectangle() in favor of publishCuboid()

  • Added cyan and magenta

  • Added maintainer

  • Removed random pose bounds member variable in favor of using a funciton parameter

  • Added publish arrow functions

  • Added dark grey color

  • New publishLine function takes two Vector3’s

  • added functionality to change bounds of random pose

  • New publishArrow function that allows stamped pose for arbitrary parent frames

  • added ArrayXXf to hold bounds on random pose

  • new publishLine function takes two Vector3’s

  • Made yellow brighter

  • added marker array to rviz and modified generate random pose to give actual random pose

  • New publishArrow() functions

  • New batch publishing method - allows markers to be published in batches to reduce ROS messages being published

  • added method for displaying cuboids

  • added a clear overlay

  • New publishMesh function

  • Added Brown, Pink, and Lime Green colors

  • Copyright year

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman, Andy McEvoy, Jorge Canardo Alastuey

1.5.0 (2015-01-07)

  • New publishLine function

  • New publishText() function with Eigen pose

  • New publishAxis() feature

  • New publishRectangle() functions

  • New publishCylinder() functions

  • New convertPoint() functions

  • API: Renamed publishTest() to publishTests()

  • Fix CMakeLists

  • API Break: Change TRANSLUCENT2 to TRANSLUCENT_LIGHT

  • New convertPoint() function

  • New DEFAULT color to allow color selection to be disabled

  • Fix install space

  • Fix for publishRectangle() - zero scale size

  • Added new size const values

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

1.4.0 (2014-10-31)

  • Renamed VisualTools to RvizVisualTools

  • Removed unnecessary dependency

  • Bugfix

  • Reduced debug output

  • New waitForSubscriber() function that checks for first subscriber to a publisher

  • New generateEmptyPose() function helper

  • Consolidated publishing rviz messages to central publishMarker() function

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman

1.3.1 (2014-10-27)

  • Added new publishSpheres function

  • Renamed rviz_colors to colors and rviz_scales to scales

  • Initial commit, forked from moveit_visual_tools

  • Contributors: Dave Coleman