No links to ROOT classes in THtml-generated doc

ROOT
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Hi,

For some time now (since 5.22/00 ?) I have noticed that when I generate
HTML documentation for my classes, THtml no longer automatically generates links to the on-line documentation for ROOT classes:
either the class names appear as plain text, or as hyperlinks which are wrong (i.e. link for TObject is ~/htmldoc/TObject.html, instead of root.cern.ch/…etc.)

How can I turn on the links to the ROOT doc ?

Cheers
John

PS. I don’t want to generate the doc for the ROOT classes, just have the correct links to the existing doc on the website

2

Hi,

thanks for your report - I can reproduce the issue. I won’t manage to fix it for the release anymore; I will let you know when it’s done!

Cheers, Axel.

3

poke - any update on this?

4

Hi,

yikes, a year later and no fix yet?! Apologies :frowning: I will be gone next week but I will fix it the week after.

Cheers, Axel.

5

Hey! No Apologies. :slight_smile: After all, its just documentation :wink:

But, thanks. Have a nice week off.

6

Hi Axel
Did you ever fix this issue ?
Cheers
John

7

Hello Axel,
I’m back again - did you ever get this fixed?
I have tried adding $ROOTSYS/include in THtml::SetInputDir,
but that just causes doc for all ROOT classes to be generated (not what I want).
I have tried THtml::SetLibURL(“Core”, “http://root.cern.ch/root/html”) in order to
get links to all classes in libCore.so - this has no effect.
Is there a way to get the links to ROOT class documentation
back online?
Thankyou

8

Hi,

Olivier is currently investigating doxygen as an alternative for ROOT documentation. If we go there we will provide a tool to transition from THtml to doxygen, something that changes the comments, supports BEGIN/END_MACRO etc. I know that with doxygen you can simply link in our documentation into yours, so this issue would be resolved.

Until then I will not be able to invest time in THtml - mainly due to ROOT 6… Sorry.

Cheers, Axel.