TextPrimitive
A primitive representing a text label
Parent schema
TextPrimitive appears in the SceneEntity message schema.
Schema
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
pose | Pose | Position of the center of the text box and orientation of the text. Identity orientation means the text is oriented in the xy-plane and flows from -x to +x. |
billboard | boolean | Whether the text should respect pose.orientation (false) or always face the camera (true) |
font_size | float64 | Font size (height of one line of text) |
scale_invariant | boolean | Indicates whether font_size is a fixed size in screen pixels (true), or specified in world coordinates and scales with distance from the camera (false) |
color | Color | Color of the text |
text | string | Text |
Reference implementations
Foxglove schemas are framework-agnostic, and can be implemented using any supported message encoding:
| encoding | schema |
|---|---|
| ROS 1 | foxglove_msgs/TextPrimitive |
| ROS 2 | foxglove_msgs/msg/TextPrimitive |
| JSON | foxglove.TextPrimitive |
| Protobuf | foxglove.TextPrimitive |
| FlatBuffers | foxglove.TextPrimitive |
| OMG IDL | foxglove::TextPrimitive |
You must use the schema names specified above for Foxglove to recognize the schema.