[Doxygen-users] Adding Custom Commands to execute Shell Scripts

[Rosen D. <ros...@gm...>]

dear doxygen users,

It would be really great to be able to define a custom command in
doxygen that can execute a program on the shell and directly insert
its output into the doxygen parser. I was thinking this would be
possible with the ALIASES command, but only recursively replaces text,
it doesn't do any shell execution.

Therefore, what do you think about the proposal of adding a \shell
command to doxygen? For example:

\shell "progname args"

Where progname could hypothetically run several examples on my
project, where each example generates images according to the "args"
of the program; the stdout output will be a set of "\image html
xxx.png" strings, which doxygen would happily parse and insert into
the documentation.

Looking at the doxygen sources, the use of "portable_system" function
is pretty common, combining that with the aliases feature, we could
have a \shell command completed fairly quickly..

thanks,
rosen diankov,