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Chirone

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Mar 2, 2009
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NZ
Hi all,

i was wondering if there was a way to automatically create documentation that looks like the stuff in the help files for objective c

for those of you who know java you'll know what i'm talking about.. something similar to javadoc

M$ visual studio has an equivalent to javadoc as well (haven't used it though) so i figured xcode should be able to do it somehow as well...

i'm not entirely sure what i should be searching for on the net to find out how this is done...
 

Cromulent

macrumors 604
Oct 2, 2006
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1,096
The Land of Hope and Glory
Hi all,

i was wondering if there was a way to automatically create documentation that looks like the stuff in the help files for objective c

for those of you who know java you'll know what i'm talking about.. something similar to javadoc

M$ visual studio has an equivalent to javadoc as well (haven't used it though) so i figured xcode should be able to do it somehow as well...

i'm not entirely sure what i should be searching for on the net to find out how this is done...

Yep. Use Doxygen.

You can download it here: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html#latestsrc

and there is a helpful article on the Apple website about making Xcode documentation sets automatically within Xcode here:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/creatingdocsetswithdoxygen.html
 
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