general settings updates for pkg development

catkin_ws/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "configurations": [
+    {
+      "browse": {
+        "databaseFilename": "",
+        "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
+        "path": [
+          "${workspaceFolder:catkin_ws}"
+        ]
+      },
+      "includePath": [
+        //"/opt/ros/melodic/include/**",
+        //"/usr/include/**"
+      ],
+      "name": "ROS",
+      "intelliSenseMode": "gcc-x64",
+      "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
+      "cStandard": "gnu11",
+      "cppStandard": "gnu++14"
+    }
+  ],
+  "version": 4
+}

catkin_ws/.vscode/launch.json

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
+    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
+    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
+    "version": "0.2.0",
+    "configurations": [
+        {
+            "name": "ROS: Launch",
+            "request": "launch",
+            "target": "${workspaceFolder:catkin_ws}/src/arena_camera/launch/arena_camera_node.launch",
+            "type": "ros"
+        }
+    ]
+}

catkin_ws/.vscode/settings.json

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+    "ros.distro": "melodic",
+    //"ros.distro": "noetic"
+}

catkin_ws/src/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-/opt/ros/kinetic/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake
+/opt/ros/melodic/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake

catkin_ws/src/arena_camera/cmake/Findarena_sdk.cmake

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if(EXISTS ${_arena_sdk_conf})
 		)
 	string(STRIP ${arena_sdk_installation_root} arena_sdk_installation_root)
 
-	#message(${_LOG_LVL_FRMT} "arena_sdk_installation_root = ${arena_sdk_installation_root}")
+	message(${_LOG_LVL_FRMT} "arena_sdk_installation_root = ${arena_sdk_installation_root}")
 
 	######### -----------------------------------------------------------------
 	# INCLUDE

ros_and_workspace_setup.sh

@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
 #
 # MAIN VARS TO CHANGE
 #
-ARENA_INSTALLATION_ROOT="$HOME/ArenaSDK_Linux_x64/"
+ARENA_INSTALLATION_ROOT="$HOME/software/OutputDirectory/Linux"
 ARENA_ROS_WORDSPACE_TO_SETUP="$HOME/arena_camera_ros/catkin_ws" #change to workspace location
 INSTALL_ROS=1
 
 
-
 ############################################################
 # Note:
 #    ArenaSDK does not need to be installed as long as 
@@ -30,9 +29,17 @@ CURR_OS="$(lsb_release -sc)"
 
 if [ $CURR_OS = "xenial" ]; then
     ROS_DIS="kinetic"
+
+if [ $CURR_OS = "bionic" ]; then
+    ROS_DIS="melodic"
+    #ROS1_DIS="noetic"
+
+if [ $CURR_OS = "focal" ]; then
+    ROS_DIS="melodic"
+    #ROS1_DIS="noetic"
 else
     echo "$CURR_OS is might not be supported yet! check https://support.thinklucid.com/using-ros-for-linux/"
-    exit(-1)
+    exit -1
 fi
 
 ############################################################
@@ -49,7 +56,10 @@ if [ $INSTALL_ROS -eq 1 ]; then
     # Install ROS Desktop.
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install ros-$ROS_DIS-desktop-full
+
     # Setup system dependencies for ROS.
+
+    # NOTE: might need sudo apt-get install python[3]-rosdep
     sudo rosdep init
     sudo rosdep fix-permissions
     rosdep update

ros_arenasd.code-workspace

@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
 		{
 			"name": "REPO_ROOT",
 			"path": "."
-		},
-		{
-			"name": "SFW_INSTALLED",
-			"path": "../software_release_chckout"
 		}
 	],
 	"extensions": {
@@ -29,121 +25,10 @@
 			"ms-python.vscode-pylance"
 		]
 	},
-	"launch": {
-		"configurations": [
-			//---------------------------------------------------------------------
-			//
-			// My Args
-			//
-			//---------------------------------------------------------------------
-			{
-				"name": "arena_camera_node with args",
-				"type": "cppdbg",
-				"MIMode": "gdb",
-				"setupCommands": [
-					{
-						"text": "-enable-pretty-printing" // for std::string to show value on houver while steppingg
-					}
-				],
-				"request": "launch",
-				"program": "${workspaceFolder:WS_ROOT}/devel/lib/arena_camera/arena_camera_node",
-				"args": [],
-				"cwd": "${workspaceFolder:WS_ROOT}",
-				//"stopAtEntry": true,
-				"stopAtEntry": false,
-				"preLaunchTask": "catkin_build_debug",
-				//"preLaunchTask": "catkin_clean_build_debug",
-				"sourceFileMap": {
-					//"/home/ubuntu/Jenkins/workspace/ArenaSDK_Master_Lin/": "${workspaceFolder:SFW_INSTALLED}/"
-				}
-			},
-		],
-		"compounds": []
-	},
-	"tasks": {
-		"version": "2.0.0",
-		"tasks": [
-			/*{
-					"type": "catkin_make",
-					"problemMatcher": [
-						"$catkin-gcc"
-					],
-					"group": {
-						"kind": "build",
-						"isDefault": false
-					},
-					"label": "catkin_make: build"
-				},*/
-			{
-				"label": "catkin_clean_build_debug",
-				"type": "shell",
-				"problemMatcher": [
-					"$catkin-gcc"
-				],
-				"dependsOn": [
-					"set_params"
-				],
-				"command": [
-					"cd ${workspaceFolder:REPO_ROOT}/catkin_ws/",
-					";",
-					"rm",
-					"-rf",
-					"build",
-					"devel",
-					"install",
-					"/src/arena_camera_node/build",
-					"/src/build",
-					";",
-					"catkin_make -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"
-				],
-				"group": {
-					"kind": "build",
-					"isDefault": true
-				},
-			},
-			{
-				"label": "catkin_build_debug",
-				"type": "shell",
-				"problemMatcher": [
-					"$catkin-gcc"
-				],
-				"dependsOn": [
-					"set_params"
-				],
-				"command": [
-					"cd ${workspaceFolder:REPO_ROOT}/catkin_ws/",
-					";",
-					"catkin_make -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"
-				]
-			},
-			{
-				"label": "set_params",
-				"type": "shell",
-				"command": [
-					";rosparam delete /arena_camera_node/",
-					";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/frame_rate",
-					"10.9",
-					";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/image_encoding",
-					"mono8",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/device_user_id","",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/binning_x","",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/binning_y","",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/gamma","",
-					";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/exposure",
-					"100",
-					";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/exposure_auto",
-					"true",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/gain",
-					//"4",
-					//";rosparam set /arena_camera_node/gain_auto",""
-				]
-			},
-		]
-	},
 	"settings": {
 		// terminal
 		//
-		"terminal.integrated.cwd": "${workspaceFolder:REPO_ROOT}/catkin_ws/",
+		"terminal.integrated.cwd": "./catkin_ws/",
 		//
 		// file
 		//
@@ -161,10 +46,6 @@
 		"C_Cpp.intelliSenseCacheSize": 2000, // Megabytes
 		"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngine": "Default",
 		"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngineFallback": "Disabled",
-		"C_Cpp.default.includePath": [
-			"/opt/ros/kinetic/include/", // ros installation dir
-			"${env:ARENA_ROOT}/**" // ArenaSDK installation dir. you can replace the env variable with a path
-		],
 		"C_Cpp.default.browse.path": [],
 		"C_Cpp.default.enableConfigurationSquiggles": true,
 		"C_Cpp.dimInactiveRegions": true,
@@ -173,7 +54,7 @@
 		//
 		// Cmake
 		//
-		"cmake.parallelJobs": 88,
+		"cmake.parallelJobs": 6,
 		"cmake.saveBeforeBuild": true,
 		"cmake.parseBuildDiagnostics": true,
 		// ${workspaceFolder} interpreted PKG_ROOT because it is selected form the status bar
@@ -186,7 +67,8 @@
 		//
 		// ROS
 		//
-		"ros.distro": "kinetic",
+		"ros.distro": "melodic",
+		//"ros.distro": "noetic",
 		"cSpell.words": [
 			"DCMAKE",
 			"rosparam"