ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Using the rqt_gui and rqt plugins

Since ROS Fuerte, the rx applications or tools have been deprecated, so we should use the rqt nodes instead. They are basically the same, and only a few of them incorporate small updates, bug fixes, and new features. The following table shows the equivalences for the tools shown in this chapter (the ROS Kinetic rqt tool and the one it replaces from previous ROS distributions):

ROS Kinetic rqt tool	Replaces (ROS Fuerte or before)
rqt_console and rqt_logger_level	rxconsole
rqt_graph	rxgraph
rqt_reconfigurerqt_reconfigure	dynamic_reconfigurereconfigure_gui
rqt_plot	rxplot
rqt_image_view	image_view
rqt_bag	rxbag

 

In ROS Kinetic, there are even more standalone plugins, ...