LCM messages can be displayed using the lcm-spy utility. For the data viewing utility to function the files have to be decoded into the transmitted data types. To decode the files, open a command prompt and 'cd' into the appropriate directory/file. The following steps will create the lcm types for the player to read.
1. Make java classes for your lcm types:
lcm-gen -j *.lcm
2. Build those classes:
javac -cp lcm.jar gss/*.java
3. Package the compiled classes as a java 'jar' file:
jar cf gss_types.jar gss/*.class
4. Include those 'jar' files in your environments java 'CLASSPATH'
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:./lcm.jar:./gss_types.jar
5.Once the communications type is correct, run lcm-spy by calling it explicitly from the command line.
lcm-spy
