Node Manager

A GUI to manage the configuration on local and remote ROS masters. For more details see manual, roswiki or use the (?) button in the title bar.

Shortcuts

F2 Renames a selected launch file. F3 Opens a screen for selected node. F4 Opens an XML Editor for selected node. Ctrl+R Opens a dialog to launch a master_discovery node on entered host. Ctrl+E, F4 Opens an XML Editor for selected launch file. Ctrl+L Loads the selected launch file into selected host. Ctrl+O Runs on selected host default_cfg node with selected launch file as parameter. Alt+N Opens a dialog to run a ROS node without a configuration. This node will be launched in a [SCREEN]{.title-ref}. Alt+R Runs selected nodes. Ignores already running nodes. Alt+S Stops selected nodes. If more then one node is selected, nodes ending with [rosout]{.title-ref}, [node_manager]{.title-ref}, [master_discovery]{.title-ref}, [master_sync]{.title-ref} or [default_cfg]{.title-ref} are ignored. Ctrl+Backspace Sends a [SIGKILL]{.title-ref} to selected nodes. If more then one node is selected, nodes ending with [rosout]{.title-ref}, [node_manager]{.title-ref}, [master_discovery]{.title-ref}, [master_sync]{.title-ref} and [default_cfg]{.title-ref} are ignored. Ctrl+Delete Unregister selected nodes (their topics and services) from ROS master. If more then one node is selected, nodes ending with [rosout]{.title-ref}, [node_manager]{.title-ref}, [master_discovery]{.title-ref}, [master_sync]{.title-ref} and [default_cfg]{.title-ref} are ignored. Shift+Backspace Sends a [SIGKILL]{.title-ref} to assigned [SCREEN]{.title-ref} of selected nodes. Shift+S Shows all available [SCREEN's]{.title-ref} which contains the ROS nodes launched by node manager. Ctrl+F4 Closes the loaded configurations. Alt+E Expands all groups in Nodes tab. Alt+C Collapses all groups in Nodes tab. Alt+{1..5} Selects all nodes of the {first...fifth} host in Nodes tab excepting the manage nodes. Ctrl+X Copies the alternative values to clipboard. On [Node]{.title-ref} view this is PID. On [Topic]{.title-ref} and [Service]{.title-ref} view it is the type. On [Parameter]{.title-ref} view it is the parameter value. ——————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

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Changelog for package node_manager_fkie

0.7.3 (2017-04-24)

• node_manager_fkie: fix crash on start master_discovery
• node_manager_fkie: fixed network discovery dialog
• node_manager_fkie: added "pass_all_args" for highlighter
• node_manager_fkie: fixed crash while stop or start a lot of nodes
• node_manager_fkie: changed font color in echo dialog
• node_manager_fkie: changed default color in description widget
• node_manager_fkie: added a workaround for "CTR mode needs counter parameter, not IV"
• node_manager_fkie: reverted url changes
• fixed warnings in API documentation
• node_manager_fkie: fixed url handling in host control
• Contributors: Alexander Tiderko

0.7.2 (2017-01-27)

• node_manager_fkie: added a parameter to hide domain suffix in description panel and node tree view
• node_manager_fkie: reverted the cut of domains in hostnames
• Contributors: Alexander Tiderko

0.7.1 (2017-01-26)

• node_manager_fkie: increased precision for float values in combobox (used by settings)
• node_manager_fkie: fixed editor for kinetic; removed setMargin since it not suported by Qt5
• node_manager_fkie: fixed URLs for some buttons in description panel to use it with Qt5
• node_manager_fkie: added more details on start if no 'screen' is available
• node_manager_fkie: changed supervised_popen initialization to avoid multi subclassing
• node_manager_fkie: added a raise Exception if no terminal is availabe
• node_manager_fkie: raise an error now if 'paramiko' is not available
• node_manager_fkie: fixed startup if a node manager instance already running
• node_manager_fkie: added xterm path for macOS
• node_manager_fkie: remove domain suffix from hostname to avoid name problems
• node_manager_fkie: fixed UnboundLocalError for 'selectedGroups' and 'self._accept_next_update'
• Contributors: Alexander Tiderko, Jason Mercer, Dirk Schulz

0.7.0 (2017-01-09)

• node_manager_fkie: fixed visualisation of not local nodes

  repaired gui_resources.py for Qt5 compatibility restore Qt5 compatibility

• node_manager_fkie: added update/set time dialog to update time with ntpdate or date

• node_manager_fkie: added rosbag record to rqt menu

• node_manager_fkie: copy now all selected nodes, topics, services or parameter names to clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C

• node_manager_fkie: added cursor position number to editor

• node_manager_fkie: added indent before hostname in description panel

• node_manager_fkie: added a colorize_host settings parameter

  the color of the host will be now determine automatically you can also set own color for each host by double-click on the hostname in description panel.

• node_manager_fkie: fixed error after cancel color selection

• node_manager_fkie: use gradient to set color

• node_manager_fkie: now you can define colors for each robot

• node_manager_fkie: removed a broken import

• node_manager_fkie: fixed: no longer clear the search result on click into editor

• node_manager_fkie: find dialog in xml-editor shows now all results in as list

• node_manager_fkie: added clear button to filder lines in dialogs

• node_manager_fkie: add filter to nodes view added also a clear button (also ESC) to all filter lines

• node_manager_fkie: fixed some extended visualization for synced nodes

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