I’ve given up waiting for ITT VIS to release the source code of IDLdoc 2.0 and rewriting a new version from scratch. I intend to release the source code under a BSD-style license.
I’m using this as an opportunity to make IDLdoc 3.0 much cleaner than the old piecemeal code base of IDLdoc 2.0. I had already been writing many of the underlying libraries used such as array list, hash table, and template classes since I use them for other tasks, so I’ve got a good foundation to build upon.
I’m not sure of how long this will take since I’m doing it in my spare time, but check out a sneak peak of IDLdoc 3.0 output. There will be new features as well in this release: the biggest being several options on the format for comments (i.e. you won’t have to use the “@”-style tags).
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November 14th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Looking forward to it. I have signed up today. Hopefully we’ll have options to change the title’s background color. I’m not a fan of the green that you are using in the “sneak peak”.
November 14th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
The templates and style sheet are available to change however you like. You can even create multiple different templates (i.e. one for LaTeX output, one for HTML output, one to match an existing website’s style, etc.).