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. The section layout show how to reorder and hide certain information on a page. The section xml output show how to generate whatever output you want based on the xml output produced by doxygen. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. Instead, docbook is used to create the manual and the faq, and doxygen is used. Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. Doxygen command \mainpage within a comment block places the documentation within that block on the index page of the generated documentation. Content management system cms task management project portfolio management time tracking pdf. Formulas doxygen can include latex formulas in the html and latex output formats. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman.
To generate the pretty pictures and hierarchy graphs, the graphviz package will need to be installed. Section customizing the output explains how you can customize the output generated by doxygen. Additional control settings may be available depending on the transceiver being controlled. Section custom commands show how to define and use custom commands in your comments. The following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. Here only some basic suggestions of how to document your code will be given. Guide to using doxygen opensim documentation global site. Visit the doxygen homepage for info on downloading and setting up the executables. Note that all attributes of a html tag are passed on to the html output only the href and name attributes for the a tag are the only exception. How to document python code with doxygen stack overflow. Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most.
Note the g file in the example was generated by again, the now ancient doxygen1. Using doxygen the reference manual is expressed directly in the. Html commands here is a list of all html commands that may be used inside the documentation. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes to standard output. It can also include the sources directly into the documentation by setting. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. At present, the default outputs are html output and pdf if additional support is available on your computer.
To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template configuration file for you. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. I cant see anything in configuration settings or documentation that would assist in clarifying why doxygen does not place documented code from the header file into its generated output. Documentation with doxygen daniel bankmann, benjamin unger december 15, 2014 bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 1 9. It runs on most unixlike systems, mac os x and windows. Depending on your settings doxygen will create html, rtf, latex, xml, man, andor docbook directories inside the output directory. If you use a different version you might need to modify some settings accordingly. Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files.
Doxygen will use this information to generate all constant output in the proper language. Some messages about default to 91 can be ignored by hitting enter key. With doxygen my project sources are the documentation. Each project should get its own configuration file. Doxygen users seem to rely on htmlpdf documentation. The section minor tweaks discusses what to do if you want to do minor tweaking to the look and feel of the output. When you rightclick the pagenum, you can do the action like update the item i. Birdseye view of how doxygen works there are two main steps in using doxygen. In addition to basic information gathered from noncomment portions of the source files i. The generated documentation makes easier to navigate and understand the code as it may contain all public functions, classes, namespaces, enumerations, side notes and code examples.
Generate pdf with custom structure using doxygen stack overflow. After successful completion, you will check your output directory folder and your document will be ready. This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile. If you need help setting it up you can ask a staff member for some help. The output from doxygen can come in many formats, including. Once this is done, just run doxygen nf, and it will create a doc directory with the html documentation. Doxygen uses a configuration file to determine all of its settings. This typically boils down to the following settings in the config file.
Only a fraction of the documented header file, the structures, actually appears in any doxygen output. Depending on your settings doxygen will create html, rtf, latex, xml andor man directories inside the output directory. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. It can generate html output andor pdf output as well as a few other types. Configuration options related to the html output doxygen manual. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. After doxygen has finished appears in the log, click show html output.
When you click the pagenum, you can see that it is not a normal text. Configuration file well documented, you just need to fill in the blanks. Doxygen is a utility that extracts documentation from source files. You can refer to the main page using \ref index if the treeview is disabled, otherwise you should use \ref main. Gnu versions of find, xargs, and possibly sed and grep are used, just because the gnu versions make things very easy. Documentation not appearing in doxygen output stack overflow. The pdf file will contain links just like the html output instead of page. A project can consist of a single source file, but can also be an entire source tree that is recursively scanned. These are in a dropdown area toggled by the arrow button to the left of the attenuator button on the small aspect ratio dialog view. The default output directory is the directory in which doxygen is started. Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i. You probably forgot to include the stylesheet doxygen.
For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. Doxygen is the tool that was used to create html and pdf documentation for rbelib. In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. Open leonardopsantos opened this issue aug 26, 2019 3 comments. Section linking to external documentation explains how to let doxygen create links to externally generated documentation. This commenting system is illustrated in the following example.
Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Aspnetcore tool to use to generate pdf file from view. Guide to using doxygen doxygen is an automated documentation system for available classes and methods. For instance, the html docs will be in docdoxygenhtml. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes. There is also support for generating output in rtf ms.
Configure the rest of the wizard settings as usual. While generating source documentation, you will notice that doxygen reports undocumented items via the doxygen output pane in the ide. It is easy to see which is the effect of the comments. Click on a class name to see the documentation for that class, including inheritance diagram, function listing, and function call graphs. Pdf including hyperlinks xcode documentation sets for inclusion in the ide. It is a compiler which compiles source or text files and extracts the embedded information. Generated files are output into separate sub directories of docdoxygen in the build directory, based on the output format. Doxygen is using the comments in the code to generate the documentation. It is installed on all of the lab computers already and if you want to set it up on your computer you can look here. Doxygen can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. This started as work done by stratify labs and was extended further here.
A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of. This page will introduce you to navigating the online doxygen pages and orientate you to the structure and language used. Doxygenusers configuring the rtf output i need to produce an ms word documentation for my vhdl code that complies with the documents template of my company. Note that comments that you may have added in the original configuration file will be lost. As the names suggest these directories contain the generated documentation in html, rtf, xml and unixman page format. Click on run doxygen button and you will see the progress on the output produced by doxygen box. 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. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code.
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