RViz Text Selection Panel

This panel for RViz is useful when you:

• want to view data in RViz
• Have too much data to view at one time
• Want to manually move forward or backward to view your data

You provide a list of strings. Through this selection tool you manually scroll forward or backward. This panel sends a return message string for the element currently selected. Your code can use this returned string as a key to look up and compute any data and publish any visualization markers relevant to that string.

Installation

This requires QT5, ROS, and RViz. Clone this repo into your catkin workspace and build. Resource your catkin/devel/setup.bash and launch rviz

Demo

1. Start a roscore
2. Launch rviz and open the demo.rviz file in this repo
3. Run rosrun rviz_text_selection_panel demo.py

You should see a marker appear. Using the selection tool, you can scroll through the text options and view them republished as text markers.