Doxygen is very useful for maintaining and understanding your own larger projects as well as useful documentation for others who use your code. Checktranslation, createpdfdocument, load, recommendpage, save, slideshow, svgeditor. An ffmpeg and sdl tutorial by stephen dranger, explains how to write a video player based on ffmpeg. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Your development environment should have make tool. Please see the doxygen manual for more information. Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects using doxygen. Doxygen generates documentation in html, pdf and other formats.
Note that the image files must be placed in a location recognized by doxygen. These are part of a larger list of projects that use doxygen. But if i generate html only, then this method still works, with some colour coding missing, e. Birdseye view of how doxygen works there are two main steps in using doxygen.
It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. For the graphs generated with dot doxygen tries to limit the width of the resulting image to 1024 pixels. Joerg baumann, for adding conditional documentation blocks, pdf links, and the. This post is dedicated to developers because after reading this post developers life will easy to create the document directly from the code. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. Although doxygen also has a command to start such a section see section \sa, it does allow you to put these kind of links. This works, however i also have some doxygen style comments in my code, and i want my makefile to automatically generate the html page with the documentation. One header file can be included by another which itself can be included by another. It is highly recommended that you document your code. Getting started with doxygen remarks this section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. A brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17 projects. By putting a number of columnaligned minus signs at the start of a line, a bullet list will automatically be generated. In the following example, a comment block for class foobar has been. This tag allows one to insert an image into the documentation.
Lets get to 300 subs by the end of the year here is the doxygen website. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile. Include graph of a header file, generated using doxygen. Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform section getting started tells you how to generate your first piece of documentation quickly section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that code can be documented section markdown support show the markdown formatting supported by doxygen. Doxygen will put members into that group where the grouping definition had the highest priority. Patel is right you need to run doxygen, then latex of some sort to create the single doc. The following are examples of documented methods using doxygen style in the. This section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. How to create pdf document from doxygen how to create pdf documentation with doxygenmiktex automatically let us suppose you need to make api reference guide with doxygen as a pdf file. Doxygen ist ein freewaretool zur automatischen dokumentation. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Doxygen the wellautomated arduino library adafruit. If it is left blank doxygen will generate files with.
Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. Documentation with doxygen daniel bankmann, benjamin unger december 15, 2014 bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 1 9. The following output formats are indirectly supported by doxygen. August 2014 bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 2 9. Conflicting grouping definitions with the same priority trigger a warning, unless one definition was for a member without any explicit documentation. I later realized that if i took that approach, and generated latex or pdf out of doxygen, things would not show up properly, so i had to make a parser that would convert xml tags to doxygen special commands. Integrating doxygen with eclipse theolindmahm3lib wiki. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. How to create header include graph using doxygen code. Since the documentation for doxygen is new, you may need. In this tutorial we will be integrating the doxygen code documentation generator into eclipse, for fast, easy docgeneration across multiple developers.
Doxygen provides a number of ways to create lists of items. 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. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. For each project that uses doxygen, you must create a configuration file. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this.
Ffmpeg basics by frantisek korbel, describes various ffmpeg features and common tasks. Doxygen requires different image formats for the different output types. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. This is done using the ecloxplugin which bridges the gap between doxygen and eclipse. 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. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the html version. In this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config file and then create your html and pdf documents. If you know other projects, let me know and ill add them. Doxygen documentation for your programs installing.
Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Using doxygen, a developer can create the document using doxygen gui or doxygen command. For creating the document, we are going to cover the doxygen utility. Doxygen looks at the files extension to determine how to parse a file. Python for machine learning install graphviz install pydotplus to visualize decision tree p88 duration. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a. This is done for all other languages directly supported by doxygen i. Es werden verschiedene programmiersprachen unterstutzt z. 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. This example only deals with how the doxygen comments should be used. We learn how to use doxygen to easily generate nice looking documentation for our code. Doxygen creates a makefile, too, so if youve got make i dont on my win7 box, you can just type make in the latex directory.
The following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. A dark blue arrow indicates an include relation for the include dependency graph or public inheritance for the other graphs. 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. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. This video is part of a series called tool of the week, in which i make a tutorial on a prominent software. Note that the actual documentation consists in comments you write in the header file. Note the blank line in the last example, which is required to separate the brief. Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most popular one. It should also mention any large subjects within doxygen, and link out to the related topics. A black box indicates that the class documentation is currently shown.
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