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

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

hi all,

Just curious, any ideas about adding such a feature.  I was thinking
it would be also possible to use it for syntax highlighting of
languages beyond c++. even though our project is written in c++, it
provides bindings to several other languages, so it would be really
cool if we can put that code in doxygen and have a \shell command that
runs on the args and outputs html code. There's a really awesome
syntax highlighter for this called python-pygments
(http://pygments.org/), so all that's missing is the doxygen part.

I realize there is an INPUT_FILTER configuration, but I would really
hate to have to spoon-feed doxygen this way.

thanks,
rosen,

2010/7/15 Rosen Diankov <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,
>