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use "text" signals for drop-down text QComboBox - #3823

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The QComboBox in the moveit_rviz_plugin/MotionPlanning uses the signals activated and currentIndexChanged. At least with newer Qt versions on lyrical, they have the signatures void activated(int index); and void currentIndexChanged(int index);, which are incompatible with the text.

The correct signals would be those with "text": void textActivated(const QString &); and void currentTextChanged(const QString &);.

Fixes #3822 .

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved responsiveness when selecting start states, goal states, and planning groups in the motion-planning interface.
    • Improved configuration control interactions so changes are applied more consistently.
    • Enhanced overall consistency of motion-planning UI updates when selecting options or modifying settings.

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The MotionPlanning RViz plugin replaces string-based Qt signal and slot connections with typed connections throughout its UI wiring. Combo boxes use typed activation signals, and configuration controls call configChanged directly.

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MotionPlanning signal wiring

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moveit_ros/visualization/motion_planning_rviz_plugin/src/motion_planning_frame.cpp
The constructor uses typed connections for planning, scene, geometry, perception, list, tab, shortcut, and configuration controls. Combo boxes use QComboBox::textActivated, and configuration controls call MotionPlanningFrame::configChanged directly.

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The change fixes drop-down text signal handling, but one planning-group connection still uses a user-only signal, which can prevent programmatic updates from propagating correctly. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on that connection.

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The 'QComboBox' in the 'moveit_rviz_plugin/MotionPlanning' uses the signals
'activated' and 'currentIndexChanged'. At least with newer Qt versions on
lyrical, they have the signatures 'void activated(int index);' and
'void currentIndexChanged(int index);', which are incompatible with text.

The correct signals would be those with "text":
'void textActivated(const QString &);' and
'void currentTextChanged(const QString &);'.

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- Around line 124-125: Update the planning_group_combo_box connection to use
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planningGroupTextChanged(QString) also runs when setCurrentText() changes the
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Note that the main branch should support all active ROS distros, thus still Humble with Qt5.
For MoveIt1 we fixed the Qt5/Qt6 compatibility long ago (moveit/moveit#3582) by choosing different signals.
Also, we used the modern function-pointer syntax for signals and slots, which detects mismatching connections at compile time already.
I suggest performing a cherry-pick (which probably needs many manual adaptations).
An AI should be good at this 😉

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I replace the SIGNAL/SLOT macros and this is still compiling on humble without any switches.

But rolling fails now with error: ‘void QCheckBox::stateChanged(int)’ is deprecated: Use checkStateChanged() instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]. Is the deprecated-declarations check new? This did not fail before.

I think we should not check for deprecated-declarations on rolling as this can break the CI at any time when packages in rolling are updated with new deprecating declarations. IMHO, this is only relevant when preparing for a new LTS release.

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Is the deprecated-declarations check new?

This was part of our CXXFLAGS set for a long time, but was disabled recently due to many issues on Rolling.
As we aim for clean code, we should leave the flag in there. This will alert us as early as possible about deprecations.

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Is the deprecated-declarations check new?

This was part of our CXXFLAGS set for a long time, but was disabled recently due to many issues on Rolling. As we aim for clean code, we should leave the flag in there. This will alert us as early as possible about deprecations.

I added compile-time version switches for this. It now builds on all LTS distros.

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Looks great. Thanks a lot!

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RViz MotionPlanning plugin does not allow changing planning group

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