Doxygenusers chm generation with html help workshop. 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. If your documentation is already exists in microsoft help 1. The utility is a part of free html help workshop from microsoft. 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 also ships with a gui tool named doxywizard that makes it easy to create a configuration file and generate documentation for the first time. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension. Since the documentation is obtained directly from the source code, you are sure to get the updated version of the docs. You can then host the docs generated onto a real web site.
Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files. Integrate custom help into msdev apache openoffice wiki. 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. Sep 12, 2019 therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag. Doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file. Comments may be placed anywhere within the file except within quotes. They contain all the individual files mentioned in this article. 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. Here you will find a quick overview of help authoring tools that you can use for creating chm files.
However, clicking on the items in those contents and index lists do not display any content. 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. Download the win32 binaries and install them ill assume in the following you installed doxygen in c. Click on the download button above to install sandcastle. On successful generation, the task uploads the file as build artifact so that it. Alternatively you can download the files from sourceforge. Download html help workshop and documentation from official. After installing sandcastle, follow the steps here to create a sample chm or hxs build. This simple command line tool is used by vsdocman when you compile documentation to chm output format. I am using the wizard expert mode to create my configuration file. This tool can help you generate chm file not only from scratch, but also from a set of existing html files. Now, let me show you how to use winchm pro to build chm file easily and quickly 1. 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. Jul 29, 2008 microsoft compiled html help chm format.
Hi all, currently im generating html documentation with a custom css and additional image files. 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. 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. I downloaded the microsoft html help workshop version 1. Once you have written comments on code and ready to generate the document. Generate chm output from doxygen output stack overflow.
After installation it is recommended to also download and install graphviz version 2. Built in localization support means that you can take your chm file to a global audience if required. Adding uml diagrams to doxygen documentation thoughts on. Easily import your old chm files and continue to work with your existing help documentation. Edit the doxygen configuration file located at doc\ doxygen \html\ doxygen. The chm help file is a set of web pages written in a subset of html and compressed together with lzx compression. Doxygeneclox is something i already use for a very long time. Doxygen doxygenusers chm file is not being generated. Howto generate the documentation in windows help file.
Microsoft compiled html help is a microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of html pages, an index and other navigation tools. Howto generate the documentation in windows help file format. This answer helps you avoid manually typing using a keyboard. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Doxygen is a freeware project that aims to outfit several programming languages with a powerful documentation tool. 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. 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. Win 98me2000xpvista78 need to generate chm files from microsoft word document. Microsofts html help workshop and compiler generate chm files by.
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. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. How to generate chm with doxygen and html help compiler. You must feed this file to the html help compiler for actual generation of the. 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. The word document must have a good organized document map. Because this format is not supported on unix platforms, doxygen would only generate a file named index. 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. In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. I then further want to convert the html into a compressed html chm file. 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. Apr 27, 2007 doxygen itself can almost directly generate such a file. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Try it, it will save your lots of time, required to generate the documetation.
The format is often used for software documentation. Linux users might like to set their configuration in this file. 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. Helpstudio is the fastest, easiest way to create chm files, publish and integrate them with your desktop or web based applications or components. How to create html help chm file from word document. For each docmentable entity, doxygen looks for a brief comment, and a detailed description. Doxygen config file to generate source code documentation.
I am on a computer using windows 7 professional sp1, 64bit. Doxygen uses a configuration file, typically named doxyfile, to generate documentation. Im doing some doxygen documentation and its been requested that i generate. Compressed html chm files are a convenient medium to view and browse through documentation on windows. 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. 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.
You can generate a default configuration file using doxygen g, or by using the doxywizard. Create chm help file make html help for your software. As seen above, the title of the chm would show as frobozzco reference manual. 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. Enrich your chm file with new screenshots and cool illustrations. If you need more information on creating and using html help chm files, you can also visit the related links in the right box. Launching the chm file, i observe that the contents and index tabs do list the pages, namespaces, classes, and members of those classes. Easily change the appearance of chm files pages with by applying various preset templates. Html help is a help file format introduced by microsoft in 1997 as replacement to the obsolete winhelp files. 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. Therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag. Click button new on the toolbar to launch new project dialog 3.
Doxygen scans your projects filefolder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Although it also supports others to a small degree, such as. On the dialog, choose create a blank project and set a folder as your project folder. 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. On successful generation, the task uploads the file as build artifact so that it can be downloaded at later time. Create chm files quickly and easily with helpstudio. Documentationdoxyfile at master su2codedocumentation github. Generate help output in crossplatform plain html, html help, help 2. Chm format html help 1 is a standard and very popular help format present on windows platforms. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Create chm files quickly and easily with helpstudio innovasys. Create webhelp, pdf, and doc from the same project and in the same.
Visit sandcastle blog for the release notes and latest information. 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. If you plan to let doxygen generate your compressed help files. Download and extract my doxygen tools and keep them safe and warm in a folder of your choice. To create a chm file, you need the free chm compiler utility called hhc. All these steps will be explained in the following. Create chm file using doxygen solutions experts exchange. Winchm is a very easytouse chm generator and help file generator. Edit the doxygen configuration file located at doc\doxygen\html\doxygen. 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. Doxygen scans your projects file folder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. 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. 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.
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