Qt App Templates
Description: Speeding app development with quickstart templates via roscreate-qt-pkg.Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
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Goal
Generate a qt-ros application package with roscreate-qt-pkg.
Details
Currently the roscreate-qt-pkg script generates only one template app, though this may be expanded in future. Features include:
- a ros master chooser
- separate ui and ros node classes
- ros node class has connections for gui logging and a spinner
It can be compiled natively in linux or with the mingw cros compiler.
Usage
> rosrun qt_create roscreate-qt-pkg qdude
Simply make in place (native compile) or use rosbuild2 to cross-compile with mingw - refer to the mingw build environment and the mingw qt-ros tutorials for more details.
Once compiled and running, you can:
Affect gui changes in main_window.ui with qt designer
Modify qt code in main_window.hpp/main_window.cpp
Do ros topics and services in qnode.hpp/qnode.cpp.
For more advanced qt options (e.g. specifying qt components), see the notes in qt_build for a more detailed explanation now how to use the cmake api to configure your package.
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