/****************************************************************************** * * * * Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by Dimitri van Heesch. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby * granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software * for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. * See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * All output generated with Doxygen is not covered by this license. * */ /*! \page autolink Automatic link generation Most documentation systems have special `see also' sections where links to other pieces of documentation can be inserted. Although doxygen also has a command to start such a section (See section \ref cmdsa "\\sa"), it does allow you to put these kind of links anywhere in the documentation. For \f$\mbox{\LaTeX}\f$ documentation a reference to the page number is written instead of a link. Furthermore, the index at the end of the document can be used to quickly find the documentation of a member, class, namespace or file. For man pages no reference information is generated. The next sections show how to generate links to the various documented entities in a source file. \subsection linkurl Links to web pages and mail addresses Doxygen will automatically replace any URLs and mail addresses found in the documentation by links (in HTML). \subsection linkclass Links to classes. All words in the documentation that correspond to a documented class will automatically be replaced by a link to the page containing the documentation of the class. If you want to prevent that a word that corresponds to a documented class is replaced by a link you should put a \% in front of the word. \subsection linkfile Links to files. All words that contain a dot (.) that is not the last character in the word are considered to be file names. If the word is indeed the name of a documented input file, a link will automatically be created to the documentation of that file. \subsection linkfunc Links to functions. Links to functions are created if one of the following patterns is encountered:
  1. \"("\")"
  2. \"()"
  3. "::"\
  4. (\"::")n\"("\")"
  5. (\"::")n\"()"
  6. (\"::")n\
where n>0. \par Note 1: The patterns above should not contain spaces, tabs or newlines. \par Note 2: For JavaDoc compatibility a \# may be used instead of a :: in the patterns above. For non overloaded members the argument list may be omitted. If a function is overloaded and no matching argument list is specified (i.e. pattern 2 or 5 is used), a link will be created to the documentation of one of the overloaded members. For member functions the class scope (as used in patterns 4 to 6) may be omitted, if:
  1. The pattern points to a documented member that belongs to the same class as the documentation block that contains the pattern.
  2. The class that corresponds to the documentation blocks that contains the pattern has a base class that contains a documented member that matches the pattern.
\subsection linkother Links to variables, typedefs, enum types, enum values and defines. All of these entities can be linked to in the same way as described in the previous section. For sake of clarity it is advised to only use patterns 3 and 6 in this case. \par Example: \verbinclude autolink.cpp \htmlonly Click here for the corresponding HTML documentation that is generated by Doxygen. \endhtmlonly \subsection resolving typedefs. Typedefs that involve classes, structs and unions, like \verbatim typedef struct StructName TypeName \endverbatim create an alias for StructName, so links will be generated to StructName, when either StructName itself or TypeName is encountered. \par Example: \verbinclude restypedef.cpp \htmlonly Click here for the corresponding HTML documentation that is generated by Doxygen. \endhtmlonly */