Building Cinder Docs

Doxygen

Doxygen can help you in three ways:

1. It may create an offline reference manual (Latex) or an online document browser (in HTML) from a collection of source files that have been documented. Creating outputs in RTF (MS Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages are also supported. Since the documentation is taken straight from the sources, maintaining consistency between the documentation and the source code is significantly more straightforward.  
    
2. Doxygen may be set up to extract the code organization from undocumented source files. This makes it extremely easy to navigate significant source distributions. Doxygen also uses automatically created dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and cooperation diagrams to show the relationships between different pieces.  
    
3. Doxygen may also be used to create standard documentation.
    

Doxygen is developed for Mac OS X and Linux but is set up to be highly portable. As a result, it runs on most other Unix flavors as well. Furthermore, executables for Windows are available. 

Doxywizard

The GUI front-end for setting up and operating Doxygen is called Doxywizard.

Doxywizard can be started by specifying a preexisting configuration file to be used as input; otherwise, the default settings will be used.

The primary window will appear when you launch Doxywizard.

Building Cinder Docs

You may access local documentation in the included Cinder source files. The online version is available here. If you copy the Cinder GitHub repository, the documentation must be produced in your locally cloned repo. This involves three steps.  

Step 1: Doxygen Export

Cinder produces documentation from cinder docs source files in part using Doxygen. Doxywizard may be used to create the tag file and Doxygen output. The most recent version of Cinder utilizes Doxywizard 1.8.10. Doxywizard may be downloaded from here.

• Start Doxywizard
• File | Open... on the menu will open the docs/doxygen/Doxyfile.
• Choose the "Run" tab
• To start Doxygen, use the "Run" button.
   

This phase creates an XML file directory and Cinder.tag file.

Step 2: Docs HTML File Creation

The documentation is produced in the next step using freshly produced Doxygen output. To execute it, you must have Python 2.7.x installed.

• Launch your preferred command line.
• cd docs
• generateDocs.py in Python
   

The Cinder/docs/html directory becomes home to HTML pages created by this procedure. You can create a GitHub bug if your Python file generates a mistake that leaves the documentation incomplete.

Step 3: View Documents Locally

To see the files, use Python's SimpleHTTPServer:

• Launch the command line of your choice.
• cd html
• python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
• Visit http://localhost:8000

Frequently Asked Questions  

What is doxygen used for in C++?

Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf, or Latex from code comments formatted with Doxygen markup syntax. The generated documentation makes navigating and understanding the code more straightforward, as it may contain all public functions, classes, namespaces, enumerations, side notes, and code examples.

What is Cinder?

An open-source library called Cinder was created to enhance the C++ language's capability for sophisticated visualization.

Can doxygen be used for Python?

Doxygen may document various languages, including C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, and more; however, it is mainly used to describe C++.

How do I add doxygen comments in C++?

Once a function has been provided, you may create a comment stub by putting the appropriate "///" or "/**" above it or by using the shortcut (Ctrl+/).

Conclusion

This blog discusses Cinder and how to build Cinder documents using Doxygen with the help of Doxywizard. If you think this blog has helped you enhance your knowledge of the above question or want to learn more, check out our articles. Visit our website to read more such blogs. 

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3. Cinder + Git
4. Cinder: Windows Setup
    

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