Generate chm output from doxygen output stack overflow. Alternatively you can download the files from sourceforge. 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. Once you have written comments on code and ready to generate the document. Although it also supports others to a small degree, such as. Please note that some tools like ms html help workshop include only the basic features while the other chm help tools are fullfeatured help authoring software. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. This answer helps you avoid manually typing using a keyboard. Im doing some doxygen documentation and its been requested that i generate. The format is often used for software documentation. Doxygen config file to generate source code documentation. Download the win32 binaries and install them ill assume in the following you installed doxygen in c. After watching the video which explains how you can create a chm file with a help authoring tool, you may want to download the application whose basic features we have demonstrated. A default attribute set in this root file will try to find the page with that exact title and use it as the page displayed when the chm opens the chm documentation.
However, clicking on the items in those contents and index lists do not display any content. Doxygenusers chm generation with html help workshop. If you need more information on creating and using html help chm files, you can also visit the related links in the right box. Therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag. Doxygen uses a configuration file, typically named doxyfile, to generate documentation.
Hi all, currently im generating html documentation with a custom css and additional image files. Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files. When doxygen finishes the process, it can generate the according documentation in a variety of formats such as html, rtf, postscript, pd with hyperlinks, compressed html chm, and unix man pages. On successful generation, the task uploads the file as build artifact so that it. Create chm help file make html help for your software. Chm extension represents a container that stores all the data of a help system including html files of help topics, css styles sheets, javascripts files, the hierarchical table of contents, alphabetical. If you are allergic to installers and guis, havent sufficient bandwidth, or dont have administrator priviledges you can also download the 32bit doxygen binary in a zip 18. Adding uml diagrams to doxygen documentation thoughts on. As seen above, the title of the chm would show as frobozzco reference manual. Html help is a help file format introduced by microsoft in 1997 as replacement to the obsolete winhelp files.
Winchm is a very easytouse chm generator and help file generator. Easily change the appearance of chm files pages with by applying various preset templates. Comments may be placed anywhere within the file except within quotes. Oct 11, 2004 in my efforts to make myself more at home with using the torque engine, i tried to get a nice searchable documentation file after trying all sorts of dodgy shareware programs to convert the oxygen generated html to a windows help format chm, i found out that doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file itself. Doxygen scans your projects file folder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Integrate custom help into msdev apache openoffice wiki. So you have been walkthrough this article and find out that how we can generate the documentation of our product easily with the help of sandcastle tool. Helpstudio is the fastest, easiest way to create chm files, publish and integrate them with your desktop or web based applications or components. Nowadays, chm is the most popular format for creating standalone help file for windows applications, because chm is optimized for reading and searching on a users local pc. After installation it is recommended to also download and install graphviz version 2. Enrich your chm file with new screenshots and cool illustrations. Helpstudio is the fastest, easiest way to create chm files, publish and integrate them with your desktop or web based applications or components generate help output in crossplatform plain html, html help, help 2. On successful generation, the task uploads the file as build artifact so that it can be downloaded at later time. Download html help workshop and documentation from official.
You can then host the docs generated onto a real web site. Generate help output in crossplatform plain html, html help, help 2. Doxygen also ships with a gui tool named doxywizard that makes it easy to create a configuration file and generate documentation for the first time. In most cases, you only need to enter the content without considering the appearance of the page, because winchm use builtin templates to help you accomplish these tasks. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. This is where doxygen, a source code documentation generator tool, may be handy as it will automatically generate documentation based on the comments in the source code. The reason is that every time you will generate doxygen new files will be generated based on your code change and you dont want to repost all the html files every time. Compressed html chm files are a convenient medium to view and browse through documentation on windows.
Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. Just to note that we have non doxygen related build processes that use hhc and we have to ignore the result it returns because it routinely reports failure when it has in fact succeeded. Create chm files quickly and easily with helpstudio. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Jul 29, 2008 microsoft compiled html help chm format. Doxygen is a freeware project that aims to outfit several programming languages with a powerful documentation tool. Edit the doxygen configuration file located at doc\ doxygen \html\ doxygen. You must feed this file to the html help compiler for actual generation of the. In my efforts to make myself more at home with using the torque engine, i tried to get a nice searchable documentation file after trying all sorts of dodgy shareware programs to convert the oxygen generated html to a windows help format chm, i found out that doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file itself. I am using the wizard expert mode to create my configuration file. Try it, it will save your lots of time, required to generate the documetation. Ideally id like to generate the html reference guide using the linux version of doxygen in my build flow, and then id like to use the generated html files to generate the chm on a windows machine. Documentationdoxyfile at master su2codedocumentation github. Howto generate the documentation in windows help file format.
Visit sandcastle blog for the release notes and latest information. Here you will find a quick overview of help authoring tools that you can use for creating chm files. Further you can download the source code and generate a doxygen version yourself when of course the proper compilers are present as generating the package by the distribution might take some time. Doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file.
Doxygen scans your projects filefolder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Create webhelp, pdf, and doc from the same project and in the same. All these steps will be explained in the following. The utility is a part of free html help workshop from microsoft. Built in localization support means that you can take your chm file to a global audience if required. The chm help file is a set of web pages written in a subset of html and compressed together with lzx compression.
Click button new on the toolbar to launch new project dialog 3. I am on a computer using windows 7 professional sp1, 64bit. This simple command line tool is used by vsdocman when you compile documentation to chm output format. Sep 12, 2019 therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag.
Apr 27, 2007 doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file. In order for doxygen to work, all developers will have to follow the same source code format in all source files,which is in itself also a plus since it will make the. You can generate a default configuration file using doxygen g, or by using the doxywizard. Click on the download button above to install sandcastle. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension. The word document must have a good organized document map. Doxygeneclox is something i already use for a very long time. Download and extract my doxygen tools and keep them safe and warm in a folder of your choice. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. On topic options tab, you can set keywords to create the index for chm file and enter context id if you want to create context sensitive help file. How to create html help chm file from word document. If your documentation is already exists in microsoft help 1.
In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. Chm format html help 1 is a standard and very popular help format present on windows platforms. Microsoft compiled html help is a microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of html pages, an index and other navigation tools. Once the source code is well formatted, the first thing to do is to create a config file for doxygen using the following command line in the source directory. They contain all the individual files mentioned in this article. Now, let me show you how to use winchm pro to build chm file easily and quickly 1. Because this format is not supported on unix platforms, doxygen would only generate a file named index. If it dont work for you and you can not resolve issues with the developers or maintainers then maybe you can run a freeware chm compiler under wine if you cant shake your winhelp format addiction. After installing sandcastle, follow the steps here to create a sample chm or hxs build. On the dialog, choose create a blank project and set a folder as your project folder. This tool can help you generate chm file not only from scratch, but also from a set of existing html files. Launching the chm file, i observe that the contents and index tabs do list the pages, namespaces, classes, and members of those classes.
Win 98me2000xpvista78 need to generate chm files from microsoft word document. Howto generate the documentation in windows help file. Doxygen doxygenusers chm file is not being generated. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, with the default name doxyfile. Create chm files quickly and easily with helpstudio innovasys. For each docmentable entity, doxygen looks for a brief comment, and a detailed description. To create a chm file, you need the free chm compiler utility called hhc. Since the documentation is obtained directly from the source code, you are sure to get the updated version of the docs. Easily import your old chm files and continue to work with your existing help documentation. Now i want to generate a chm windows help file for customer deployment, but my custom css file and the additional images files are not included in the index. Microsofts html help workshop and compiler generate chm files by. Create chm file using doxygen solutions experts exchange. I then further want to convert the html into a compressed html chm file.
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