Programmatically generating documentation for an .lvlib

[cgiustini]

Hey,

 

I am going to be developing a lot of .lvlibs for reuse by others, and I would like to quickly generate documentation for them. I started programming a tool that recursively looks through a library by using the "Owned Items[]" property and iterating through those in order to find folders, .vis and .ctl. Then using the "VI Documentation VIs", the tool would just output a word document that contains VI icons, terminal lists, and descriptions. Does a similar tool already exist? I would gladly use such a tool if it already does.

 

C

 

 

[ShaunR]

Hey,

 

I am going to be developing a lot of .lvlibs for reuse by others, and I would like to quickly generate documentation for them. I started programming a tool that recursively looks through a library by using the "Owned Items[]" property and iterating through those in order to find folders, .vis and .ctl. Then using the "VI Documentation VIs", the tool would just output a word document that contains VI icons, terminal lists, and descriptions. Does a similar tool already exist? I would gladly use such a tool if it already does.

 

C

Yes. You can export a complete hierarchy to a couple of formats (including HTML) from within the IDE Look in the help under "Print Dialog Box"

[cgiustini]

That does it.

 

Thanks,

Carlo