CHANGELOG.rst

Changelog for package rviz_visual_tools

3.9.1 (2020-10-09)

• [maint] add soname versions to libraries (#166)
• [maint] Apply clang-format-10 (#173)
• Contributors: Tyler Weaver

3.9.0 (2020-09-05)

• [feature] Add optional parent frame to iMarker (#159)
• [feature] Publish cuboid with size as a vector3 or Eigen::Vector3d (#125)
• [feature] Normalize interactive marker quaternions. (#132)
• [feature] normalize before publish (#131)
• [feature] New helper function getIdentityPose() (#122)
• [feature] Windows bring up. (#116)
• [feature] For ABCD planes: better comments, ensure the plane equation is satisfied. (#120)
• [feature] Make rviz_visual_tools publish triangle mesh and tf_visual_tools clean published transforms (#117)
• [feature] Publish plane from Ax+By+Cz+D=0 equation (#119)
• [feature] Remove default arguments to make function calls not ambiguous (#112)
• [feature] Initizalize quaternions in demo to avoid warning (#111)
• [fix] rviz warnings about scale and uninitialized quaternions (#129)
• [fix] publishCylinder namespace (#109)
• [fix] node type in demo launch files (#110)
• [maint] Adding missing dependency (interactive_markers) (#168)
• [maint] clang-tidy (#158)
• [maint] replace tf_conversions with tf2 (#151)
• [maint] bump cmake version (#150)
• [maint] remove trailing whitespaces (#130)
• [maint] Apply clang-tidy (#127)
• [maint] Switch to moveit_ci, apply clang-format (#124)
• [maint] Use LOGNAME for logging re:moveit styel (#106)
• Contributors: AndyZe, Bjar Ne, Dave Coleman, Jafar Abdi, JafarAbdi, Michael Görner, Mike Lautman, Sean Yen, Victor Lamoine, Yu, Yan, d-walsh

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