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The Doxygen documentation tool reads the source code for your application (or library) and generates nicely formatted API documentation from it.

There are also the library apidox policies, which are much stricter, which provide measurable properties that apidox must adhere to.

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This document is going to try to prevent the apidox process from becoming exhausting, by giving straightforward tips about how to write apidox. The other part is plain discipline: apidox are most useful when they are exhaustive. One part is technical: you need to understand the code you are documenting - or at least know what it is supposed to do and how it is meant to be used. You do not necessarily need to run the tutorial programs or read the source code of the library to find out what a parameter flags does in some method of the library. It is possible to learn a lot about Qt just from reading the documentation. There is a consistency of style, a thoroughness which permeates all the documentation. Look at the Qt documentation to get a feeling of what excellent apidox look like. Is there a better way to do it? Are the names of your functions and arguments sensible? Writing is also a chance for you to reflect on the structure of the API you have designed. Writing about your code will also help publicize it. Good apidox help a great deal for new people who want to work on your code, or better yet, re-use it elsewhere with a minimum of modification. It is easy to brush off because they are not completely essential before others start using your code, but they should not be taken lightly. Especially for libraries, good apidox make the library usable as a black box (and that's how they should be) because all the needed documentation is available in the apidox and not hidden in the (perhaps inaccessible) C code.ДЄPIDOX are what make a program accessible to other contributors. Good apidox means that someone new can show up, understand your code, and produce meaningful patches (that is, help) all the more quickly. The benefits of apidox come when someone else (or maybe even you several months later) needs to (re)use the code, or extend it. Good apidox take some effort to write - but I would say less than good user documentation, since you as a developer are writing for another developer, and explaining how code works and what it is supposed to do. In this page, we will refer to all the material that documents and explains the API of a piece of code as 'apidox.'

It needn't just be a reference manual, though, there can be extensive additional material, like tutorials, histories, etc. It is documentation that explains to a developer who is going to work with the program, or a developer who is going to work on a program, how things work and what methods are there to call.ДЄPI documentation is sometimes called an API reference manual. API ( Application Programming Interface) documentation is documentation that applies to a program and its interfaces.