pebble/docs/docstring-help.md
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Doxygen pro tips

  • Define top-level groups and other doxygen constructs in docs/common.dox.
  • The main page can be found in docs/mainpage_sdk.dox
  • Use \ref to create a cross reference in the documentation to another group, function, struct, or any kind of symbol, for example: Use \ref app_event_loop() to do awesome shit. will create a clickable link to the documentation of app_event_loop. Don't forget to add the () parens if the symbol is a function! Using angle brackets like <app_event_loop()> doesn't seem to work reliably, nor does the automatic detection of symbols.
  • Use the directive @internal to indicate that a piece of documentation is internal and should not be included in the public SDK documentation. You can add the @internal halfway, so that the first part of your docstrings will be included in the public SDK documentation, and the part after the @internal directive will also get included in our internal docs.
  • Use @param param_name Description of param to document a function parameter.
  • Use @return Description of return value to document the return value of a function.
  • If you need to add a file or directory that doxygen should index, add its path to INPUT in the Doxyfile-SDK configuration file.
  • If you want to make a cross-reference to an external doc page (the conceptual pages on developer.getpebble.com), create an .html file in /docs/external_refs, containing only a link to the page. Then use \htmlinclude my_ref.html to include that link in the docs. This extra level of indirection will make it easy to relocate external pages later on.