Re: [Doxygen-develop] Patch for linking to TCL class members with 'dot' in their name

[Tom G. <tom...@ex...>]

Hi all,

I filed this as BUG 711387
( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711387 )

With best regards,
Tom.

On ma, 2013-11-04 at 10:15 +0100, Tom Ghyselinck wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> There is a bug in doxygen-1.8.5 with TCL classes with a dot in their
> name.
> 
> When we want to use \link to these members, the resolution of the name
> fails.
> 
> This is due to the fact that the any dot in a name is subsituted by
> '::' as
> if it was a scope separator.
> This is very suitable and convenient for C++ / Java / etc., where a
> dot
> in function names and class members is not allowed,
> but TCL does allow a dot in function names.
> 
> I wrote a (quick and (maybe not so) dirty) patch for doxygen-1.8.5.
> 
> The function resolveRef in util.h/util.c now has an additional
> argument dotIsScopeSeparator. When this is set to FALSE,
> a 'dot' in the reference name won't be translated to '::'.
> 
> For compatibility, it defaults to TRUE.
> The Q&D part now exists in the fact that, the rest of the code
> still uses the compatible call. The function itself tries to resolve
> with dotIsScopeSeparator = FALSE when resolving with
> dotIsScopeSeparator = TRUE fails.
> 
> I added a simple test project with several links as suggested by
> http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/autolink.html
> 
> With best regards,
> Tom.
> 
> 
> 

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