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authordimitri <dimitri@afe2bf4a-e733-0410-8a33-86f594647bc7>2009-12-30 13:28:15 (GMT)
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ HTML browsers by default have no search capabilities that work across multiple
pages, so either doxygen or external tools need to help to facilitate
this feature.
-Doxygen has 5 different ways to add searching to the HTML output, each of which
+Doxygen has 6 different ways to add searching to the HTML output, each of which
has its own advantages and disadvantages:
<h2>1. Client side searching</h2>
@@ -128,4 +128,31 @@ has its own advantages and disadvantages:
each user, or distributing the Qt help assistant along with
the documentation, which is complicated by the fact that it is not
available as a separate package at this moment.
+
+<h2>6. Eclipse Help Plugin</h2>
+ If you use eclipse, you can embed the documentation generated by
+ doxygen as a help plugin. It will then appear as a topic in the help
+ browser that can be started from "Help contents" in the Help menu.
+ Eclipse will generate a search index for the documentation when you
+ first search for an keyword.
+
+ To enable the help plugin set
+ \ref cfg_generate_eclipsehelp "GENERATE_ECLIPSE_HELP" to \c YES,
+ and define a unique identifier for your project via
+ \ref cfg_eclipse_doc_id "ECLIPSE_DOC_ID", i.e:
+\verbatim
+ GENERATE_ECLIPSE_HELP = YES
+ ECLIPSE_DOC_ID = com.yourcompany.yourproject
+\endverbatim
+ then create the \c com.yourcompany.yourproject directory (so with
+ the same name as the value of \c ECLIPSE_DOC_ID) in the
+ \c plugin directory of eclipse and after doxygen completes copy
+ to contents of the help output directory to
+ the \c com.yourcompany.yourproject directory.
+ Then restart eclipse to make let it find the new plugin.
+
+ The eclipse help plugin provides similar functionality as the
+ Qt compressed help or CHM output, but it does require that Eclipse is
+ installed and running.
+
*/