comment generation

[sajis997]

Hi Forum,

This is not exactly a C++ related query. Sometimes we see some copyright information at the beginning of the header and source files as comments.

I believe that they are auto generated. Do you know any tool that generate this copyright information ?


Regards
Sajjad

[mutexe]

we use this at work:
http://www.atomineerutils.com/

hmm although i'm not sure it generates our file headers. i'll check.


when i select add file header i get something like this:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// file:	<projName>\<fileName>
//
// summary:	Declares the main frm class
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

However there are a shedload of configuration options in the add-on, so it looks like you have a large amount of free-reign on how you can set it up.

edit 2: Seems a useful table:
http://www.atomineerutils.com/compare.php

[Duthomhas]

Every business will have in-house tools to do stuff like that.

Your header should have at least three things if you ever plan on other people making use of it:

license information
your name
what the file is for and/or a pointer to documentation

Hope this helps.

[MikeyBoy]

They don't have to be in-house tools - some IDE's (e.g. Eclipse) will allow you set up a header template that will be added to a new file.

Really, it depends what tools you're already using, and what support they have for this kind of functionality.