What is dot doxygen?

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Doxygen can use the “dot” tool from graphviz to generate more advanced diagrams and graphs. Graphviz is an open-source, cross-platform graph drawing toolkit and can be found at http://www.graphviz.org/ If you have the “dot” tool in the path, you can set HAVE_DOT to YES in the configuration file to let doxygen use it.

How do you get doxygen?

In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps:

have the doxygen executable installed on your computer (this is already done on our DESY machines)
document your code.
create a configuration file.
run doxygen to create the documentation (HTML or LaTeX based).

How do I show code in doxygen?

You can put example source code in a special path defined in the doxygen config under EXAMPLE_PATH , and then insert examples with the @example tag. Doxygen will then generate an extra page containing the source of the example. It will also set a link to it from the class documentation containing the example tag.

How do you use doxygen in VS code?

Running from Visual Studio

From the Tools menu select External Tools…
Click the Add button to create a new external tool configuration.
For the Title enter “Doxygen”
For the Command enter the path to the Doxygen executable. (
For the Arguments enter the name of your configuration file.

How do I use doxygen on Mac?

Instructions

To install doxygen, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal) sudo port install doxygen Copy.
To see what files were installed by doxygen, run: port contents doxygen Copy.
To later upgrade doxygen, run: sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade doxygen Copy.

How do I enter a code on doxygen?

What is doxygen documentation generator?

Doxygen is a tool which allows to generate documentation from source code. It supports a wide range of languages, C, C++ and Fortran among them. Various output file formats like HTML, Latex and PDF are supported.

How is doxygen useful?

Doxygen is a tool or command line-based documentation generator that helps in writing reference documentation for software. As it is written within the code, it is very easy to keep on updating. Moreover, it can cross-reference the code and documentation, which helps in referring to the actual code.

What is the use of dot graph in Doxygen?

Doxygen itself uses DOT graphs to generate the class inheritance and call graph diagrams. In order to generate the DOT diagrams you need to have dot utility installed.

How to make hyperlinks in Doxygen graph?

The nodes of the graph can be made hyperlinks as it is demonstrated in the sample project. Doxygen itself uses DOT graphs to generate the class inheritance and call graph diagrams. In order to generate the DOT diagrams you need to have dot utility installed. On most distributions the dot utility can be found in the graphviz package.

How to create inheritance diagram in Doxygen?

Doxygen creates inheritance diagrams but I dont think it will create an entire class hierachy. It does allow you to use the GraphViz tool. If you use the Doxygen GUI frontend tool you will find the relevant options in Step2: -> Wizard tab -> Diagrams. The DOT relation options are under the Expert Tab. Show activity on this post.

What do the blue and black boxes mean in dot Doxygen?

For the graphs generated with dot doxygen tries to limit the width of the resulting image to 1024 pixels. A blackbox indicates that the class’ documentation is currently shown. A dark bluearrow indicates an include relation (for the include dependency graph) or public inheritance (for the other graphs).