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Foxglove v0.4.0

Our robots have been hard at work attempting to press buttons on keyboards, and it appears to have resulted in new features.

Added​

  • We can now render raw Velodyne point clouds (velodyne_msgs/VelodyneScan messages from /velodyne_packets topic) in Foxglove, without them needing to be converted into sensor_msgs/PointCloud2. This makes it possible to visualize point clouds from additional open source datasets such as the Udacity Self Driving Car dataset.
  • Support for unpublished transforms referenced in point clouds, and transforms with missing parents
  • Support for all sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 field data types
  • Support for older style tf/tfMessage transforms
  • Added a "repeat" toggle to enable/disable repeat during bag playback
  • Added new telemetry.crashReportingEnabled preference

Changed​

  • Automatic x-axis sync in Plot and State Transition panels
  • Integrated @fluentui/react component library, with some minor icon other UI changes
  • Auto-hide menu bar on Linux and Windows
  • Remember last URL for ROS and bag connections

Fixed​

  • Fixed several issues with Node Playground
  • Fixed native file system integration (double click to open bag)
  • Fixed errors attempting to publish to empty topics
  • Fixed support for bags with unaligned Float32Array
  • Minor improvements to how we handle some errors
  • Cleaned up menu warnings in the developer console

Internals​

  • New @foxglove/velodyne-cloud package for working with raw Velodyne packets in TypeScript
  • New @foxglove/log package
  • Upgraded chart.js to v3, moved off a custom fork, and rewrote most of the Plot and State Transitions panels in the process
  • Upgraded react-mosaic-component and moved off a custom fork
  • Replaced react-spring with react-transition-group