(Doxygen itself can also output Latex, manpages, RTF, PDF etc).
See http://www.doxygen.org for more info about Doxygen.
-If you want to add documentation of a new class/function to the
+If you want to add documentation of a new class/function to the
existing manual in docs/doxygen, you need to create a new .h file,
e.g. myclass.h, under the interface folder, which contains the public
interface of the new class/function in C++ syntax.
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First, make sure you have a recent version of Doxygen installed in your system
-(you'll need Doxygen >= 1.5.4).
+(you'll need Doxygen >= 1.5.7).
On Unix:
/**
@class wxMyClass
- @wxheader{myclass.h}
...here goes the description...
manual pages using the @ref command
*/
-Note that everything *except* the @class, @wxheader, @library and @category
+Note that everything *except* the @class, @library and @category
commands are optionals.
+Also note that if you use @section and @subsection in the class description
+(at the beginning), you should use as the section's anchor name "xxxx_yyyy"
+where "xxxx" is the class name without the initial "wx" in lowercase
+and "yyyy" is a lowercase word which uniquely identifies that section.
+E.g.:
+
+/**
+ @class wxMyClass
+
+ This class does not exist really and is only used as an example
+ of best documentation practices.
+
+ @section myclass_special Special functions of this class
+
+ This section describes the functions whose usage is reserved for
+ wxWidgets internal mechanisms... etc etc...
+
+
+ @section myclass_custom Customizing wxMyClass
+
+ What if you want to customize this powerful class?
+ First you should do this and that, etc etc...
+
+
+ @library{wxbase}
+ @category{misc}
+
+ @see wxMyOtherClass
+*/
+
Documentation comment for a function
Note that the @return, @note, @remarks, @see commands are optional.
-The @param command has an optional attribute specifying the direction of
+The @param command has an optional attribute specifying the direction of
the attribute. Possible values are "in" and "out". E.g.
/**
*/
Note that there is a convention in the anchor link names.
-Doxygen in fact requires that for each @page, @section, @subsection, etc tag,
+Doxygen in fact requires that for each @page, @section, @subsection, etc tag,
there is a corresponding link anchor.
The following conventions are used in wxWidgets doxygen comments: