Flexible to a similar level as doxygen or more yes personally i find it more flexible as it allows a mixture of autogenerated and prewritten, in restructuredtext, documentation. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. Upgrade doxygen documentation formattingcontent by. Many linux distributions have a software control centre from which you can install the software. In our example, the title of the main page is my project. As you can see, all comments start with a line with and finish with a line with, this is the formatting required by doxygen to generate the documentation based on the source code. Doxygen automatically generates a link to the class myclass somewhere in the running text. This has the effect of creating a related page in the web page produced by doxygen and creating a man page that is not specific to a file. Configuration options related to the man page output doxygen. The configuration file has a format that is similar to that of a simple makefile. If doxygen is in your path simply issue the command. See the lcg spi doxygen page for package availability and downloads. To force the reference to a class or method one can use the \see command followed by a list of class and method names. The document method functionality seems to use a fairly generic formatting.
Doxygeneclox is something i already use for a very long time. Formatting comments for doxygen root a data analysis framework. Documenting arduino sketches with doxygen woolsey workshop. You can also make va snippets for specific comment blocks, or parts of comment blocks that you might want to add. Several styles are supported, see doxygen s home page for more info, particularly this section for details, but an adequate subset are reproduced here.
Dec 15, 2014 tool for automatic analysis and documentation of software. Guide to using doxygen opensim documentation global site. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information optionally, the executable doxywizard can be used, which is a graphical frontend for editing the configuration file that is used by doxygen and for running doxygen in a graphical environment. Program of work code owners release checklist coding conventions shifters. Documenting syndicate with doxygen syndicate guides. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar.
Indexing and searching shows how use the external search and index tools. View the change log download the doxycomment formatting template. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. How to make an introduction page with doxygen stack overflow. If you edit this snippet to use doxygen format, then you will get doxygen format comments when you use the document method refactoring command. Whether working on a new project or reverse engineering existing source code, doxygen is a free tool that can easily generate highquality documentation. The documentation indicates that section is a page level command, not meant to be used in other contexts. Doxynum is a program for automatic numbering of sections and drawings, as well as for creating contents in documentation, generated using the doxygen software. Upgrade doxygen documentation formattingcontent by ferdnyc. How to programming with doxygen how to build software. Could not really solve the problem but found me a workarround. Thats annoying, but at least i got the main page evgen dec 12 16 at 7. The autonumerator filter for the doxygen documenting software.
The module documentation ordering seems totally random. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. Unfortunately this only works if both compressed html files are in the same directory. Moxygen is currently used in conjunction with gitbook to generate the api documentation for libsourcey. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block.
Coding style coding standards at some point in your career you may well be required, or at least expected to adhere to an explicit coding standard document. Formatting comments for doxygen root a data analysis. In lhcb we use it do generate the online documentation of the software. So i started to look at doxygen but was quickly put off by two major flaws. It is very hard and even impossible to not have the api documented to day with the code using doxygen. The markup language used to format documentation comments was. Easy documentation using doxygen wintergreen works.
File containing example of doxygen usage for quick reference. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. Doxygen is a powerful tool for the development of documentation. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. Usually found under the application menu in the desktop. For generating webbased manuals, guides, and tutorials we use sphinx doxygen is opensource software that was developed by dimitri van heesch and is.
Is there a easy way to use vax to create skeleton doxygenformat comments on methodclass names. The structure of doxygen documentation ales nosek the. If the \mainpage command is placed in a comment block the block is used to customize the index. And its addon extensions let you integrate it right into the visual studio ide, generate code diagrams, and more. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. For this doxygen supports the markdown syntax, including parts of the markdown extra extension. It is used in many projects for preparation of api descriptions and manuals for. This still created related pages area, with a placeholder empty. General behaviour of doxygen scope of paragraph commands.
Markdown works great for simple, generic formatting, like an introduction page for your project. This page will introduce you to navigating the online doxygen. A silly c program to use for demonstrating doxygen. Section markdown support show the markdown formatting supported by. In case of function and class names, doxygen is smart and will automatically create a link to the documentation of a function or class whenever it is mentioned inside doxygen comments. This page will introduce you to navigating the online doxygen pages and orientate you to the structure and language used. The first sentence is a brief description of the class and will appear in all class listings. Doxygen is a tool for writing software reference documentation. Doxygen will then remove the and keep the word unlinked. Actively maintained yes at the time of writing rev 1. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. Markdown is designed to be very easy to read and write. Aug 31, 2015 coding style coding standards at some point in your career you may well be required, or at least expected to adhere to an explicit coding standard document.
This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile. Once installed you can configure the doxygen easily by the doxywizard. Tool for automatic analysis and documentation of software i easily write structured and readable documentations with pleasant. First, the documentation for a function or class comes in a doxygen comment block immediately before the function or class is defined. If you are ever present at the inception of a large project, you will have the opportunity to watch the inevitable flame war over tab stops and brace placement. Doxygen is an automated documentation system for available classes and methods. I was expecting my two functions to be documented here. The \class doxygen command is mandatory otherwise doxygen will not associate the comments to the proper class. Click on data structures in the top line to browse your classes etc. An easy way to find the software is to type doxygen in the search bar in the software control centre. Choose toolsview results to explore the documentation.
The doxycomment formatting template is an xslt style sheet for xml files generated by doxygen. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and. If you have a comment thats not intended for converting to web documentation, simply start it with and doxygen will ignore it. All these problems are solved with doxygen, because doxygen is mainly just comments in the source code that in a result, you can build all the documentation needed html pages, manpages, pdfs, etc up to date with the code. Whole tomato software forums doxygen format documentation. Here are entry points to all the pages generated by doxygen. C and doxygen removing duplicates of variable documentation. To ease the correct writing of this software we are documenting ug4 a custom command. Doxygen automatically generates a page for every file with the. May 21, 2012 many linux distributions have a software control centre from which you can install the software. Doxygen eclox is something i already use for a very long time. And is there any place where styles, examples, and recommendations for arranging documentation are discussed or displayed other than this list and the examples on the doxygen site. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference.
The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. Apr 02, 2009 nasa modeling guru home top of page this site powered by jive sbs 4. There is html generated, but nothing is documented here. We at jedi use doxygen for generating man pages, inheritance diagrams, call trees and other types of html documentation that is linked to specific blocks of source code such as classes, functions, and subroutines.
The root team has adopted doxygen for generating the reference manual. The style sheet processes the xml output to generate xhtml compliant web pages similar in structure and design to microsofts msdn library. However, you can make this even more useful by embedding documentation on how to use your classes right in the code itself. This tag is nice for when you want to give the reader a broad overview of your software architecture and then give them links to the main software blocks. The comments are formatted using the qt style or the. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. Here you will find a number of conventions and tips for converting the existing source code to generate proper documentation. The documentation for the class is in general located at the beginning of the.
The documentation is mainly extracted from the comments in header files. Here is a list of all documented files with brief descriptions. You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. Before any doxygenspecific formatting tweaks are made, please try to make sure that the initial formatting is sound. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code.
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