How to document external file in doxygen? - doxygen

Question

I've found a lot of questions about documenting an .ini file.
I've also read the special commands of doxygen. http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/commands.html#cmdverbinclude
For me it is still unclear how to structure the file that I get the sections,
name of variable, unit, range, default value and description.
It is totally fine for me to create a file which I only use to document this .ini file. (e.g. inidocumentation.h) but I wasn't able to manage the sections and make sure that it doesn't mix with the other documented classes and so on.
e.g. for
[Section1]
length = 5
I want to be able to have the result
Section1:
length
unit: Meter
range: 0 - 1000
default: 5
Brief: this is my description
Please find below my doxygen configuration like requested.
The Input / Output configuration should not be changed.
# Doxyfile 1.8.14
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Project related configuration options
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOXYFILE_ENCODING = UTF-8
PROJECT_NAME = "My Naame"
PROJECT_NUMBER =
PROJECT_BRIEF =
PROJECT_LOGO =
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = ../../../../Desktop/Doxygenwx
CREATE_SUBDIRS = NO
ALLOW_UNICODE_NAMES = NO
OUTPUT_LANGUAGE = English
BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC = YES
REPEAT_BRIEF = YES
ABBREVIATE_BRIEF = "The $name class" \
"The $name widget" \
"The $name file" \
is \
provides \
specifies \
contains \
represents \
a \
an \
the
ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC = NO
INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB = NO
FULL_PATH_NAMES = YES
STRIP_FROM_PATH =
STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH =
SHORT_NAMES = NO
JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF = NO
QT_AUTOBRIEF = NO
MULTILINE_CPP_IS_BRIEF = NO
INHERIT_DOCS = YES
SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES = NO
TAB_SIZE = 4
ALIASES =
TCL_SUBST =
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C = NO
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA = NO
OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN = NO
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL = NO
EXTENSION_MAPPING =
MARKDOWN_SUPPORT = YES
TOC_INCLUDE_HEADINGS = 0
AUTOLINK_SUPPORT = YES
BUILTIN_STL_SUPPORT = NO
CPP_CLI_SUPPORT = NO
SIP_SUPPORT = NO
IDL_PROPERTY_SUPPORT = YES
DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC = NO
GROUP_NESTED_COMPOUNDS = NO
SUBGROUPING = YES
INLINE_GROUPED_CLASSES = NO
INLINE_SIMPLE_STRUCTS = NO
TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT = NO
LOOKUP_CACHE_SIZE = 0
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Build related configuration options
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXTRACT_ALL = YES
EXTRACT_PRIVATE = YES
EXTRACT_PACKAGE = YES
EXTRACT_STATIC = YES
EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES = YES
EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS = YES
EXTRACT_ANON_NSPACES = YES
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = NO
HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = NO
HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS = NO
HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS = NO
INTERNAL_DOCS = NO
CASE_SENSE_NAMES = NO
HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES = NO
HIDE_COMPOUND_REFERENCE= NO
SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES = YES
SHOW_GROUPED_MEMB_INC = NO
FORCE_LOCAL_INCLUDES = NO
INLINE_INFO = YES
SORT_MEMBER_DOCS = YES
SORT_BRIEF_DOCS = NO
SORT_MEMBERS_CTORS_1ST = NO
SORT_GROUP_NAMES = NO
SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME = NO
STRICT_PROTO_MATCHING = NO
GENERATE_TODOLIST = YES
GENERATE_TESTLIST = YES
GENERATE_BUGLIST = YES
GENERATE_DEPRECATEDLIST= YES
ENABLED_SECTIONS =
MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES = 30
SHOW_USED_FILES = YES
SHOW_FILES = YES
SHOW_NAMESPACES = YES
FILE_VERSION_FILTER =
LAYOUT_FILE =
CITE_BIB_FILES =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to warning and progress messages
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
QUIET = NO
WARNINGS = YES
WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED = YES
WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR = YES
WARN_NO_PARAMDOC = YES
WARN_AS_ERROR = NO
WARN_FORMAT = "$file:$line: $text"
WARN_LOGFILE =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the input files
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
INPUT = "../../../../Downloads/wxWidgets-3.1.1/samples/#minimal Adapted"
INPUT_ENCODING = UTF-8
FILE_PATTERNS = *.c \
*.cc \
*.cxx \
*.cpp \
*.c++ \
*.java \
*.ii \
*.ixx \
*.ipp \
*.i++ \
*.inl \
*.idl \
*.ddl \
*.odl \
*.h \
*.hh \
*.hxx \
*.hpp \
*.h++ \
*.cs \
*.d \
*.php \
*.php4 \
*.php5 \
*.phtml \
*.inc \
*.m \
*.markdown \
*.md \
*.mm \
*.dox \
*.py \
*.pyw \
*.f90 \
*.f95 \
*.f03 \
*.f08 \
*.f \
*.for \
*.tcl \
*.vhd \
*.vhdl \
*.ucf \
*.qsf
RECURSIVE = NO
EXCLUDE = csv.h \
"../../../../Downloads/wxWidgets-3.1.1/samples/#minimal Adapted/csv.h"
EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS = NO
EXCLUDE_PATTERNS =
EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS =
EXAMPLE_PATH =
EXAMPLE_PATTERNS = *
EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE = NO
IMAGE_PATH =
INPUT_FILTER =
FILTER_PATTERNS =
FILTER_SOURCE_FILES = NO
FILTER_SOURCE_PATTERNS =
USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to source browsing
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOURCE_BROWSER = YES
INLINE_SOURCES = YES
STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS = YES
REFERENCED_BY_RELATION = YES
REFERENCES_RELATION = YES
REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE = YES
SOURCE_TOOLTIPS = YES
USE_HTAGS = NO
VERBATIM_HEADERS = YES
CLANG_ASSISTED_PARSING = NO
CLANG_OPTIONS =
CLANG_COMPILATION_DATABASE_PATH= 0
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the alphabetical class index
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALPHABETICAL_INDEX = YES
COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX = 5
IGNORE_PREFIX =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the HTML output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_HTML = YES
HTML_OUTPUT = html
HTML_FILE_EXTENSION = .html
HTML_HEADER =
HTML_FOOTER =
HTML_STYLESHEET =
HTML_EXTRA_STYLESHEET =
HTML_EXTRA_FILES =
HTML_COLORSTYLE_HUE = 220
HTML_COLORSTYLE_SAT = 100
HTML_COLORSTYLE_GAMMA = 80
HTML_TIMESTAMP = NO
HTML_DYNAMIC_MENUS = YES
HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS = NO
HTML_INDEX_NUM_ENTRIES = 100
GENERATE_DOCSET = NO
DOCSET_FEEDNAME = "Doxygen generated docs"
DOCSET_BUNDLE_ID = org.doxygen.Project
DOCSET_PUBLISHER_ID = org.doxygen.Publisher
DOCSET_PUBLISHER_NAME = Publisher
GENERATE_HTMLHELP = NO
CHM_FILE =
HHC_LOCATION =
GENERATE_CHI = NO
CHM_INDEX_ENCODING =
BINARY_TOC = NO
TOC_EXPAND = NO
GENERATE_QHP = NO
QCH_FILE =
QHP_NAMESPACE = org.doxygen.Project
QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER = doc
QHP_CUST_FILTER_NAME =
QHP_CUST_FILTER_ATTRS =
QHP_SECT_FILTER_ATTRS =
QHG_LOCATION =
GENERATE_ECLIPSEHELP = NO
ECLIPSE_DOC_ID = org.doxygen.Project
DISABLE_INDEX = NO
GENERATE_TREEVIEW = YES
ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE = 4
TREEVIEW_WIDTH = 250
EXT_LINKS_IN_WINDOW = NO
FORMULA_FONTSIZE = 10
FORMULA_TRANSPARENT = YES
USE_MATHJAX = NO
MATHJAX_FORMAT = HTML-CSS
MATHJAX_RELPATH = http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest
MATHJAX_EXTENSIONS =
MATHJAX_CODEFILE =
SEARCHENGINE = YES
SERVER_BASED_SEARCH = NO
EXTERNAL_SEARCH = NO
SEARCHENGINE_URL =
SEARCHDATA_FILE = searchdata.xml
EXTERNAL_SEARCH_ID =
EXTRA_SEARCH_MAPPINGS =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the LaTeX output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_LATEX = NO
LATEX_OUTPUT = latex
LATEX_CMD_NAME = latex
MAKEINDEX_CMD_NAME = makeindex
COMPACT_LATEX = NO
PAPER_TYPE = a4
EXTRA_PACKAGES =
LATEX_HEADER =
LATEX_FOOTER =
LATEX_EXTRA_STYLESHEET =
LATEX_EXTRA_FILES =
PDF_HYPERLINKS = YES
USE_PDFLATEX = YES
LATEX_BATCHMODE = NO
LATEX_HIDE_INDICES = NO
LATEX_SOURCE_CODE = NO
LATEX_BIB_STYLE = plain
LATEX_TIMESTAMP = NO
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the RTF output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_RTF = YES
RTF_OUTPUT = rtf
COMPACT_RTF = NO
RTF_HYPERLINKS = NO
RTF_STYLESHEET_FILE =
RTF_EXTENSIONS_FILE =
RTF_SOURCE_CODE = NO
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the man page output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_MAN = NO
MAN_OUTPUT = man
MAN_EXTENSION = .3
MAN_SUBDIR =
MAN_LINKS = NO
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the XML output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_XML = NO
XML_OUTPUT = xml
XML_PROGRAMLISTING = YES
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the DOCBOOK output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_DOCBOOK = NO
DOCBOOK_OUTPUT = docbook
DOCBOOK_PROGRAMLISTING = NO
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options for the AutoGen Definitions output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF = NO
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the Perl module output
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERATE_PERLMOD = NO
PERLMOD_LATEX = NO
PERLMOD_PRETTY = YES
PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX =
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the preprocessor
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ENABLE_PREPROCESSING = YES
MACRO_EXPANSION = NO
EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF = NO
SEARCH_INCLUDES = YES
INCLUDE_PATH =
INCLUDE_FILE_PATTERNS =
PREDEFINED =
EXPAND_AS_DEFINED =
SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS = YES
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to external references
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TAGFILES =
GENERATE_TAGFILE =
ALLEXTERNALS = NO
EXTERNAL_GROUPS = YES
EXTERNAL_PAGES = YES
PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration options related to the dot tool
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CLASS_DIAGRAMS = YES
MSCGEN_PATH =
DIA_PATH =
HIDE_UNDOC_RELATIONS = NO
HAVE_DOT = YES
DOT_NUM_THREADS = 0
DOT_FONTNAME = Helvetica
DOT_FONTSIZE = 10
DOT_FONTPATH =
CLASS_GRAPH = YES
COLLABORATION_GRAPH = YES
GROUP_GRAPHS = YES
UML_LOOK = YES
UML_LIMIT_NUM_FIELDS = 20
TEMPLATE_RELATIONS = YES
INCLUDE_GRAPH = YES
INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH = YES
CALL_GRAPH = YES
CALLER_GRAPH = YES
GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY = YES
DIRECTORY_GRAPH = YES
DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT = png
INTERACTIVE_SVG = NO
DOT_PATH = ../../../../Downloads/Software/graphviz-2.38/bin
DOTFILE_DIRS =
MSCFILE_DIRS =
DIAFILE_DIRS =
PLANTUML_JAR_PATH =
PLANTUML_CFG_FILE =
PLANTUML_INCLUDE_PATH =
DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 50
MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH = 0
DOT_TRANSPARENT = NO
DOT_MULTI_TARGETS = NO
GENERATE_LEGEND = YES
DOT_CLEANUP = YES
Small part of my ini-file (so far its not commented):
[sourceFile]
xpChairconfig = .\\Text\\xpChairconfig.txt
wolist = .\\Text\\wolist.txt
chairconfigpath = .\\Text\\chairconfigpath.txt
[filehandling]
useWorkaroundtoOpenFiles = true ; Use till files can be opened direct.