Wrench: Hide small values doesn't work as configured

[ruoshiwen]

Describe your issue here and explain how to reproduce it.

Your environment

• OS Version: e.g. Ubuntu 20.04
• ROS Distro: Noetic
• RViz, Qt, OGRE, OpenGl version as printed by rviz:

  QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-ruoshi-touchlab'
  [ INFO] [1699978478.388180982]: rviz version 1.14.20
  [ INFO] [1699978478.388205664]: compiled against Qt version 5.12.8
  [ INFO] [1699978478.388212452]: compiled against OGRE version 1.9.0 (Ghadamon)
  [ INFO] [1699978478.394047975]: Forcing OpenGl version 0.
  [ INFO] [1699978478.563667668]: Stereo is NOT SUPPORTED
  [ INFO] [1699978478.563713189]: OpenGL device: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
  [ INFO] [1699978478.563726313]: OpenGl version: 4.6 (GLSL 4.6) limited to GLSL 1.4 on Mesa system.

• If source build, which git commit? No

• System locale, i.e. the output of echo "$LANG $LC_NUMERIC": C.UTF-8 Before reporting a rendering issue, try running RViz with LANG=C rviz!

  I am using rviz to display geometry_msgs/WrenchStamped message from F/T sensors. I would like to show small values so I unticked Hide Small Values and the display looked fine, so I save the config file as config.rviz. Here you can see a little red/yellow dot showed up, and that's how I think the Hide Small Values is disabled.

However, whenever I open rviz again, I loaded the saved config file, although the box after Hide Small Values was kept unticked but no red/yellow dot showed up and the small values were hidden. So I ticked and unticked, and it worked. Here's a video showing this:

https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/assets/28282183/b9b2f30a-f798-44bc-a2a5-7c12f6f7847a

I also check the config file, ` Name: B12 Queue Size: 10 Topic: /thumb_00 Torque Arrow Scale: 2 Torque Color: 204; 204; 51 Unreliable: false Value: true

• Alpha: 1 Arrow Width: 0.009999999776482582 Class: rviz/WrenchStamped Enabled: true Force Arrow Scale: 0.00800000037997961 Force Color: 204; 51; 51 Hide Small Values: false History Length: 1`

The Hide Small Values is set to false. Could anyone help me here? I have tens of sensors to visualise at the same time, I don't want to tick and untick that box every time I start rviz.

[ruoshiwen]

Hi, thank you for the prompt action. I install rviz using sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-rviz I run the rviz again with the config which set the "Hide Small values" to false, but it's still the same. Maybe I need to install rviz in a different way? Look forward to your reply.

[rhaschke]

These changes will be available from the binary package only after the next release, which I didn't even cut. Meanwhile, I suggest building rviz from source. Just clone this repo into your ROS workspace.