You can refer to the main page using \ref index if the treeview is disabled, otherwise you should use \ref main. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. Easy documentation using doxygen wintergreen works. This page will introduce you to navigating the online doxygen pages and orientate you to the structure and language used. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Type make doxygen this will run doxygen, showing the output in the console.
Section doxygen usage shows how to use the doxygen program. Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. Since the documentation for doxygen is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile. Doxygen website external link development documentation. As a use case, we will consider in this tutorial the case of a panda robot in its research version from franka emika equipped with an intel realsense sr300 camera mounted on its endeffector.
Several different types of doxygen comments can be used. Formulas doxygen can include latex formulas in the html and latex output formats. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. This tutorial focuses estimation of the homogeneous transformation between the robot endeffector and the camera frame. These options are excellently documented making it easy to configure them. This section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website.
Using doxygen to document computing projects youtube. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation as i did for the doxygen user manual and website. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. 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 first part of the document provides a stepbystep tutorial in the use of geant4. It allows you to specially tag comments in your code that will be used to generate nicely formatted output such as html. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow. Doxygen is very useful for maintaining and understanding your own larger projects as well as useful documentation for others who use your code. I have compiled a list of projects that use doxygen.
This document describes how to generate documentation for fortran source code using the doxygen automated documentation tool. A brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17 projects. Doxygen combines the rtf output to a single file called refman. For each project that uses doxygen, you must create a configuration file. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files. If a file with the name already exists, doxygen will rename it to.
Although doxygen is used successfully by a lot of people already, there is always room for improvement. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Doxygen tutorial csci 102l, spring 2011, section 30349r what is doxygen. The doxygen tool will automatically pick up any updated documented code, and generate a completely updated documentation set for the latest version of the code. So i started to look at doxygen but was quickly put off by two major flaws. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information the executable doxytag is only needed if you want to generate references to external documentation i. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. It runs as a command line program, web visualization service, or with a compatible graphical interface. Section preprocessing explains how doxygen deals with macro. The second part describes the usage of the toolkit for practical applications, with a lot of example codes. All programming is maintenance programming code and documentation should always go hand in hand. Doxygen tutorial csci 102l, spring 2011, section 30349r. Aspnetcore tool to use to generate pdf file from view. If you know other projects, let me know and ill add them.
The doxygen program can be used to generate a sample configuration file named doxyfile for you. Optionally, the executable doxywizard can be used, which is a graphical frontend for editing the configuration file that is used by doxygen. The principle of the extrinsic calibration is easy to apply to any. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. All these steps will be explained in the following. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. To use doxygen, you write comments in code using the format that doxygen understands. This is a simple guide to basic use of doxygen compliant commenting of source code. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. Using doxygen command line to generate html documentation. Automatic documentation of python code using doxygen.
Easily write structured and readable documentations with pleasant markup. In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. Section configuration shows how to finetune doxygen, so it generates the documentation you want. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. Section features presents an overview of what doxygen can do. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. You may want to pipe warnings to a file to make them easy to read later. In this case the makefile will only contain a target to build refman. 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. Section graphs and diagrams describes the diagrams and graphs that doxygen can generate.
Its features include welltuned layout algorithms for placing nodes and edge. Whenever documentation exists in a seperate file it always seems to drift away from the 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. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner.
Doxygen uses special comments to flag keywords that help the tool create documentation. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Therefore, i have compiled a todowish list of possible andor requested enhancements. Getting started with doxygen remarks this section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information. Guide to using doxygen opensim documentation global site. The following guidelines provide developers with heuristics for selecting an appropriate form and writing consistent documentation comments. Confusingly enough, doxygen accepts several different standards, but the default is the one that looks most like javadoc, the comment, which is fine. Configuration format a configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. Suppose you decided yourself for an html documentation. Doxygen command \mainpage within a comment block places the documentation within that block on the index page of the generated documentation. It should also mention any large subjects within doxygen, and link out to the related topics.
To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. Compressed html chm files are a convenient medium to view and browse through documentation on windows. In this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config file and then create your html and pdf documents. Patel is right you need to run doxygen, then latex of some sort to create the single doc. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. Guide to using doxygen doxygen is an automated documentation system for available classes and methods. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. If you just want to build the doxygen pages in the doc directory make the following substitution in the doxyfile in the main mini directory. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. In the directory you ran doxygen, you will get a directory called html. 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. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. Getting started the executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation.
Section doxywizard usage shows how to use the doxywizard program. Doxygen installing, setting up, and running tutorial youtube. Make sure to also check out part 2 of this tutorial, simple doxygen templates for many useful templates and tips. This is a guide for automatically generating documentation off of python source code using the opensource tool doxygen.