as2api is great.

Believe it or not, Doxygen also works well, and can generate UML from
your code.  Search the Flashcoders archives, there was a thread on
this in the last month.

Jim Kremens

On 10/3/05, David Holroyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:53:58PM -0400, Austin Haas wrote:
> > Has anyone considered using DocBook? It's on my todo list. You can
> > publish to a variety of formats. It seems to be very widespread.
> >
> > http://www.docbook.org/
>
> DocBook is great for authoring technical documentation.  I use it to
> generate the documentation for as2api:
>
>   http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/as2api/as2api-documentation.html
>
> The source code for that documentation looks like this:
>
>   
> http://svn.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/as2api/trunk/as2api/as2api-documentation.xml
>
>
> > The biggest obstacle is that it doesn't know anything about
> > Actionscript. You would have to use a separate parser to generate the
> > xml that it understands.
>
> Sounds like you're after an analogue of the DBDoclet for JavaDoc:
>
>   http://www.michael-a-fuchs.de/
>
> I've thought about such a feature for as2api, and while I'll probably
> not have the time to implement it myself, I accept patches ;)
>
>
> > One of my personal requirements is that you shouldn't have to add
> > special comments or have a rigid style in order to generate
> > documentation. I don't want to change the way I code to support a doc
> > generator, and I'd like to be able to generate docs from someone else's
> > code.
>
> as2api uses JavaDoc syntax, and JavaDoc syntax is certainly a bit odd;
> but hey, it's a standard!
>
> If you point as2api at code annotated differently (or not at all), it
> should still produce *something*, as most of the structure is derived
> from the structure of the AS code.  The more you put in, the more you
> get out.
>
>
> dave
>
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