Re: [Doxygen-develop] Comment diagrams

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

On 17 Nov 2004 18:19:13 +0000, Stathis Sideris <im...@sa...> wrote:
> Hello everyone, (sorry if you receive this twice)
> 
> I have developed a small Java utility that can generate PNG diagrams
> from ascii-art:
> 
> http://ditaa.sourceforge.net

Nice!

> What I would like to know is, what you think is the best way to try and
> integrate this into doxygen, so that any ascii-diagrams included in the
> comments would be rendered and the appropriate <img> tag would be
> inserted into the resulting HTML documentation.
> 
> I thought of using preprocessing, but wouldn't that require my
> preprocessor to be able to parse comments in the same way that doxygen
> does? (and what's worse, in all the languages doxygen parses!)

I would suggest to add a pair of commands (\ditaa .. \endditaa) 
to doxygen that work in a similar way as the \dot ... \enddot commands
(which can now be used to include graph descriptions and let dot
convert them into images).

> And another thing: do you think that's a worthwhile project (the
> intergration with doxygen)

Yes, I believe so.

Regards,
  Dimitri