On Wednesday 23 November 2011 08:12:37 aivanov [dot] mcu [..] ... wrote:
> Hello anybody!
>
> I would like to ask some easy questions:)
>
> I had just started to learn Orocos capabilities.
>
> Could you tell me: is it some difference when using Orocos and couple Orocos
> + ROS?

The Orocos-ROS integration is a pure addon onto the Orocos toolchain, it
allows a seamless integration of the ROS middleware.

You can install the toolchain without the ros communication from the ROS
packages: orocos-electric-orocos-toolchain. This package only contains the
pure Orocos software.

> For my aims (now i have realised it) that it is better to use Orocos. I
> installed ROS firstly, after what i had installed Orocos(ROS integrated
> variant). Now it is impossible to setup Orocos to another path.
>

If you really want to control the path of the Orocos source you can easily
uninstall the ros-package and follow the following guidelines:

http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started

>
> And second request (maybe more complicated, but...): i'm not a professional
> programmer so it is difficult to understand all nuances. If anybody could
> send to me an example with some kind of
readmehttp://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started (good
comments at code is
> also expected) and with detailed way of what i must to do, for example,for
> programm wich will do smth with kdl lib for example. I would be very happy.
> For a person wich have a little experience at cpp it is very hard to walk
> through your tutorials.

After the installation it is adviced to go through the RTT-exercises, which
provides a walk-through for all the RTT concepts:

http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started/toolchain-
tutorials

> With best regards, Anton!