Option settings output format enables local customizations source code embedded comments including optional html tags and entities external text files and images doxygen tag files referencing another components doxygen documentation. Furthermore, the index at the end of the document can be used to quickly find the. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation as i did for the doxygen user manual and website. File containing example of doxygen usage for quick reference.
It does not make much sense to let doxygen parse the sources for these external project over and over again, even if nothing has changed. You may want to link to these pages instead of generating the documentation in your local output directory. Diagrams and images in doxygen ales nosek the software. Note that the image files must be placed in a location recognized by doxygen. Doxygen can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.
Doxygen will compare the file name with each pattern and apply the filter if there is a match. Here is a list of all documented files with brief descriptions. Include graph of a header file, generated using doxygen. Although doxygen also has a command to start such a section see section \sa, it does allow you to put these kind of links anywhere in the documentation. Doxygen should be replaced with the name of the doxygen executable with full path name. Several different types of doxygen comments can be used. Since doxygen already replaces tabs by spaces before doing markdown processing, the effect will only be same if. In the project im working in, we have some additional. You should be able to specify the following to copy the file. Thou shalt add your new doxygen pages to the matching subgroup instead of creating a new group. Im doing a programming project in college and i documenting my code with doxygen. Files transferred in this way will not automatically open in. Installation follows installation instrution in the step of make docs gets following errors. If you put some plantuml diagrams into your source code, the corresponding images will be generated and included in your documentation.
This tag allows one to insert an image into the documentation. Section searching shows various ways to search in the html documentation. Doxygen or latex generates useless hyphenations in function parameter tables and adds funny looking curly arrows. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Unfortunately, unlike doxygen, sphinx doesnt have a find module provided by default, so well need to write one. Doxygen will not process markdown formatting inside. Thankfully, even if this is not the case it can still produce documentation that can be useful for understanding a mass or mess of code. Next step in the build process is to apply the doxycomment formatting template to the extracted xml documentation. One header file can be included by another which itself can be included by another.
It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Hi, im trying to get a link into my doxygen documentation that relats to an external but local file. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes to standard output. The main advantage of doxygen is that you can write documentation directly within the comments of your source code. Go to hyeprlink next section or return to the index. It is highly recommended that you document your code.
Doxygen doxygenusers \image command with latex output. Contents iii 8 including formulas 51 9 graphs and diagrams 53 10 preprocessing 57 11 automatic link generation 61 11. Doxygen requires different image formats for the different output types. This function is intended as a convenience for adding a target for generating documentation with doxygen. How to add an external resourcepdf file in my doxygen documentation 1. The html link generatd by doxygen do not seem to be persistent and seem o change from run of doxygen to another. The external html already exists, and all i am rying o do is to have link from that external html into the doxygen generated code. In the html folder, there are some class diagrams png files i would like to include in the pdf file that i can generate from the tex files in the latex folder. The following sections provide guidelines for openocd developers who wish to write doxygen comments in the code or this manual. I guess doxygen would have to track what enums that are in scope, just as with class members. You can use doxygen and plantuml together to integrate uml diagrams into. For an introduction to doxygen documentation, see the doxygen primer. It aims to provide sensible defaults so that projects can generally just provide the input files and directories and that will be sufficient to give sensible results.
For documentation a reference to the page number is written instead of a link. He wants to do an internal link, not an external link. Markdown extensions table of contents doxygen yhperlink a special link marker toc which can be placed in a page to produce a table of contents at the start of the page, listing all sections. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. Its not that i do not want to write documentation that will be parsed by doxygen, its that i wanted to avoid having to do it because the external html was already written by someone else and im trying. Strange hyphenation marks in function parameter tables in. The table takes page width, so theres no point in hyphenating, a. Build can be configured for doxygen support by editing userconfig. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. In order to ensure that your source code has adequate documentation, we will be requiring that your code be fully documented using doxygen, a documentation system for c similar to javadoc. I can open a bugzilla report, depending on comments.
Doxygen outputs extracted and linked documentation in an open xml format. Doxygen will not process markdown formatting inside verbatim or code blocks, and in other sections that need to be processed without changes for instance formulas or inline dot graphs. Diagrams and images liven up technical documentation and help the reader to better understand the subject. Wouldnt it be practical if a link was generated for enuma, just as how links to classes is generated. Section preprocessing explains how doxygen deals with macro definitions. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. If the right doxygen executable can be found via the path, this parameter can be omitted. External projects typically have a different update frequency from your own project.
It should also mention any large subjects within doxygen, and link out to the related topics. How to add an external resource pdf file in my doxygen. Most documentation systems have special see also sections where links to other pieces of documentation can be inserted. Section automatic link generation shows how to put links to files, classes, and members in the documentation. In the last article of the doxygen miniseries well go over a couple of options how to include diagrams and images in doxygen documentation. Section output formats shows how to generate the various output formats supported by doxygen.
The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. Before we link in the doxygen output to give us the documentation we desire, lets automate the sphinx build with cmake. For more information on using tag files with doxygen to link to external documentation, see this page. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your code, but also for you, if you are going to reuse your code after a long period of time. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. This is a very powerful parser that is capable to finding functions, variables, macros, and many other things in the source code and attach the corresponding documentation to those functions, variables, macros, etc. The doxycomment formatting template defines how the source data is processed into xhtml pages and mshelp2 compliant metadata. Comments may be placed anywhere within the file except within quotes. Although doxygen also has a command to start such a section see section \sa, it does allow you to put these kind of links. In order to show the graphical capabilities of doxygen i created a sample project. Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i.
Doxygen is a tool for autogenerating api documentation, though you can also use it to generate documentation separate from an api. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. This is extremly practical when creating large projects or. Install miktex from url select working directory to saveselect setting file fill project name select source code directory from where documentation has to. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. How to create header include graph using doxygen code. Configuring doxygen for documentation extraction 1. Doxygen doxygenusers \include inserts line numbers. Hi all, i would like to create external html documentation that would have link to doxygen generated documentation. Peter scheutz provides a wrapper to use assimp with blitzmax.
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