You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. Tags using the \tagname style are considered qt style doxygen tags. How to document your code using doxygen flc wiki desy. A comment block looks like a c style comment block with an extra. 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. Similarly, the line which preceeds is java singleline comment. The module diagram documentation is dependent on the presence of dot, this is reflected in the docblocks. Put more weight in the documentation as class contracts become firm. It reads the well formatted and special doxygen comments to create the required documentation. Birdseye view of how doxygen works there are two main steps in using doxygen. To make your life easier, you can configure doxygen to give you as much information as possible in its documentation. Aug 31, 2015 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. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. There is a tool named doxywizard that is a gui front end for working with doxyfile, but we dont have it installed.
Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most popular one. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in latex from a set of. For example, text in side a verbatim block that looks like doxygen special commands shouldnt be marked as special commands. Click here for the corresponding html documentation that is generated by doxygen. Links are created for words corresponding to documented classes unless the. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source. These type of comment blocks are more in line with the way documentation blocks work for the other languages supported by doxygen and this also allows the use of special commands. Doxygen allows you to put your documentation blocks practically anywhere the exception is inside the body of a function or inside a normal c style comment block. You use the tag to include an example in your xml documentation. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. Every file must have a file header documentation section as described in the.
For each docmentable entity, doxygen looks for a brief comment, and a detailed description. For futher details on what you find, consult the doxygen user manual. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. This documentation is very important for the new developers who want to help in the development of the project. The answer is in the manual note that compound entities like classes, files and namespaces can be put into multiple groups, but members like variable, functions, typedefs and enums can only be a member of one group this restriction is in place to avoid ambiguous linking targets in case a member is not documented in the context of its class, namespace or file, but only visible as part. This documentation is very important for the new developers who want. All classes files functions variables typedefs enumerations enumerator. Also provide any information other programmers may find useful for using the classes. Documentation system for documented source code in. For example \brief a brief description in one short sentence. Furthermore, the structural commands mentioned in the next section like \ class are not allowed inside these comment blocks. These are part of a larger list of projects that use doxygen.
There are a number of ways to put in comment blocks that you can read about in the doxygen manual. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code. Creating documentation using doxygen in ubuntu ranvir singh. Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i. This is only the beginning we encourage you to dive in and explore. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. The documentation is contained in special comment blocks. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. For instance, if you want to document the class test in the example above, you could have also put the following documentation block somewhere in the input that is read by doxygen. Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects using doxygen. Select doxyblocksextract documentation to generate and view the documentation.
Constructors, destructors and assignment operators of the base classes will not be shown. Doxygen is very flexible when it comes to the form of how the documentation is written, the layout presented here is simply my preference. Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. The price you pay for not putting the documentation block directly before or after an item is the need to put a. In our example we only have a single class, but you can use doxygen on as many different classes as you choose. Then run doxygen, to find the source built into documentation in the cvsoctavehtml directory. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Visual studio can help you document code elements such as classes and methods, by automatically generating the standard xml documentation comment structure. These blocks can only be used to document members and parameters. However, you can make this even more useful by embedding documentation on how to use your classes right in the code itself. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile.
The rest of the documentation is generated based on doxygenstyle code comments in the source and header files. It is highly recommended that you document your code. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. You can refer to the main page using \ref index if the treeview is disabled, otherwise you should use \ref main. Formulas can be included within the text of a single line, for. So i started to look at doxygen but was quickly put off by two major flaws. However, im not getting the documentation i am expecting. If you put some plantuml diagrams into your source code, the corresponding images will be generated and included in your documentation. Jul 20, 2008 see doxygen documentation for use for python. If you know other projects, let me know and ill add them. At compile time, you can generate an xml file that contains the documentation comments. Here are the classes, structs, unions and interfaces with brief descriptions. The doxygen documentation says that a \brief command is intended to span only one line of text.
Here is the same example again but now using doxygen style comments. There is also support for generating output in rtf ms. Formulas doxygen can include latex formulas in the html and latex output formats. Here is an example of doxygengenerated documentation for a function select the image for a closer look note that most jedi functions do not yet have this level of doxygen documentation. Doxygen recognizes other comment formats as well i chose the above for both personal taste and compliance with those understood in.
Be a miser in that sense, exposing only what your user stories justify. 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. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. Jun 12, 2016 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. For a comprehensive list, see commenting the code in the doxygen documentation. If you have a project that shows an aspect of doxygen not covered by these and example or if you find a broken link then please let me know. Javadoc is a tool which comes with jdk and it is used for generating java code documentation in html format from java source code, which requires documentation in a predefined format. Following is a simple example where the lines inside. For an example of the documentation produced, see the introduction to ccdoc. When documenting a deprecated function or class, remember to link to the replacement. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation.
Hello, i have been reading up on using doxygen to generate documentation for my programs and libraries. Cs1703 multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported. All these steps will be explained in the following. This is a special page where you can add documentation concerning all the classes described by your doxygen page. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. Working with doxygen kutztown university of pennsylvania. A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers api documentation or end users enduser guide, or both, from a set of specially commented source codes. You were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have not taken. Doxygen is a tool that examines the declarations and documentation comments of your code to produce a set of html pages. They cannot be used to document files, classes, unions, structs, groups, namespaces and enums themselves. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow. Makefile rules, perl scripts and latex code to be able to generate pdf and dvi. Take the occasional opportunity to revise whether classes and functions need to be public. Copy this file named doxyfile below into your cvsoctave directory before you begin.
In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four. Doxygen supports several styles of comment blocks, but only the tripleslash style should be used in the owlnext source code. To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. There should be a header file containing only doxygen tags or a separate doxygen file that acts as a guide for the components, classes, methods, and variables e. To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template. Documenting your code with xml comments microsoft docs. Afaik its not necessary to specify \class explicitly, doxygen should detect the class name automatically, as long you put the documentation immediately before the template class declaration argument can be used to overwrite the name of the link that is used in the class documentation to something other than. After a fairly short interval, doxygen opens up your favorite browser with documentation like that shown in the following figure. I have read through the manual on the doxygen website and i think im getting a handle on the syntax. See also sections \extends, \implements, \public, \protected and \private. This tag informs doxygen that the comment block should be associated with the class. This forces you to use the command to reference them and avoids doxygen unwittingly linking to them. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation.
Doing nothing, doxygen will produce a nice cross referenced htmlized version of the code. Simple guide to basic doxygen usage justcheckings weblog. A natural subdivision is to create doxygen pages for each of. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner.
A natural subdivision is to create doxygen pages for each of the glast cmt packages. The pages produced by these tools describe your code to other programmers. This block should explain the purpose of the class, the design considerations, and relation to other classes. Doxygen is developed under mac os x and linux, but is setup to be highly portable. Working with doxygen generate a default configuration file using doxygen g. It can output, among other options, pdf, rtf, xml, compiled html, unix man.
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