To test the application and code in this chapter, you need an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS PC/laptop with ROS Kinetic installed.
You need to know Qt, PyQt, and rqt installed.
Two of the most popular GUI frameworks currently available are Qt (http://qt.digia.com) and GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/).Qt and GTK+ are open source, cross-platform user interface toolkits and development platforms. These two software frameworks are widely used in Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.
In this chapter, we will be using Python binding of the Qt framework to implement the GUI because Python binding of Qt is easier to develop compared to other methods. We will look at how to develop a GUI from scratch and program it using Python. After discussing basic Python and Qt programming, we will discuss ROS interfaces of Qt and Python, which are already available in ROS. We will...
