- Dan Cooperstock
- PowerBuilder
- Thursday, 8 June 2023 06:12 PM UTC
I'm wondering whether anyone knows of or has developed any tools for scanning your libraries and generating nicely formatted HTML docs, based on standard formatting of comments (like JavaDoc does).
I searched and found PBDoc from PBDR, but I'm not sure it really works with current releases. (I tried installing it, it was missing atl71.dll, but I found that elsewhere. But when I got it seeming configured to work on a PBL, it gave a nonsensical error message after working through the objects.)
There's also Visual Expert, but it seems to do so much more and is rather expensive.
I realize I could try writing something myself but it's a moderately large job. Getting the source code of all objects seems fairly easy, but then the big jobs are parsing it for the desired info, and generating nice HTML docs.
BTW the reason for this would be to help a new person learn our objects & code (especially a shared library), especially if I wasn't available.
Thanks.
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