Display plugins meta-ticket

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Original report (archived issue) by Deanna Hood (Bitbucket: d_hood).

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Objective is a widget that lets you load various "displays" (something that paints on the render window, e.g. a grid). Each display will have some common properties (e.g. checkbox for toggling visibility), and potentially some custom properties specific to its plugin (e.g. colour of a grid).

Subtasks:

• [✔] #137 DisplayPlugin base class, sample displays (grid, realtime factor), and minimal loader. Minimum functionality, not the most "beautiful" widget.
  • Limitations:
    • Piggybacking on loading of generic Plugins.
    • The list of displays to load can be specific in the config file, but not the configuration of the displays.
    • RealtimeFactorDisplay using MoveableText instead of an overlay of some form.
  • Issues:
    • [✔] Displays widget's layout (displays not aligning to top, not expanding correctly).
    • [✔] Correct size of Displays widget when using DisplayPlugins with expandable properties, e.g. displays can expand beyond the bottom of the screen. Should use scroll area, see #32 (#32).
    • [✔ ] RealtimeFactorDisplay disable not working.
    • [✔] RealtimeFactorDisplay crash on initialisation in some demos.
• [✔] #144 Custom Plugin type/loading (so DisplayPlugins don't pollute the list of Plugins available).
• [✔] #143 Call SetVisible on each display's root Visual when visibility checkbox is toggled (needs to be implemented in ign-rendering: #69 ✔).
• [✔] #146 UI enhancements
• [✔] #148 Loading initial properties of displays from config file.
• [✔] #148 Saving/loading configuration of Displays widget.
• [ ] #150 RTF Display using/mimicking Overlay instead of MoveableText. (Requires ability to attach visuals to camera in ign-rendering: #88 ✔)
• [ ] Implement OriginDisplay (available downstream)

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Original comment by Deanna Hood (Bitbucket: d_hood).

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[chapulina]

This ticket refers to ign-gui0, which is no longer under development, so I'll close it. But it could be a good reference to the ign-rviz work that @Sarath18 is doing. CC @ahcorde .

Here's the DisplayPlugin base class: https://github.com/ignitionrobotics/ign-gui/blob/ign-gui0/include/ignition/gui/DisplayPlugin.hh