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François 516149cdae Rename set-type to set-connector-type; help-panel & types-glossary polish.
- Command renamed from `set-type` to `set-connector-type` for
  clarity (the previous name was ambiguous — "type" of what?). No
  legacy alias kept; old scripts that still used `set-type` must be
  migrated. `test/system.essim` and all user/design docs updated.
- Help panel (RenderHelpPanel) now wraps in borderRounded with a
  centred bold title, so it is visually distinct from the main
  content on every screen. Width bumped from 30 to 32 to include
  the border.
- Analyze screen's Types tab gains a sibling "type glossary" panel
  (also borderRounded, only visible when the Types tab is focused)
  that explains Power / Suspect Power / Hard floor / Gnd in plain
  language using `paragraph()` for clean word-wrap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-14 20:41:35 +02:00
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2025-04-21 18:19:37 +02:00

essim documentation

Auto-generated API reference and high-level design notes for the essim system digital twin.

Layout

  • user/user-facing docs (hand-written intro/tutorial
  • api/developer-facing API reference (Doxygen XML → custom Markdown emitter). Browse classes and files directly in gitea's Markdown renderer. Top page: api/index.md.
  • ../DESIGN.md — implementation notes: domain conventions, TUI flow, gotchas. Hand-maintained.
  • classes.puml — PlantUML class diagram for the domain model. Render with plantuml classes.puml for a PNG/SVG.
  • Doxyfile.in / gen_api_md.py — the toolchain (templated Doxygen config + custom XML→Markdown emitter).

Regenerating the API reference

The Markdown tree under doc/api/ is committed so it's readable directly on gitea. After substantive code changes, regenerate it:

# 1. Tooling (once): Doxygen, plus a Python 3 interpreter (already on Arch).
pacman -S doxygen

# 2. Configure once (or after editing doc/Doxyfile.in):
cmake -S . -B build

# 3. Regenerate:
cmake --build build --target doc

# 4. Review and commit the updated doc/api/ tree:
git add doc/api/
git status doc/api/

Pipeline:

src/**/*.{hpp,cpp}  ──┐
README.md            ─┼─► doxygen ─► build/doc/xml/  ─► gen_api_md.py ─► doc/api/
DESIGN.md            ─┘            (Doxyfile.in)

(built essim) ────────► essim --commands-md ──────────────────────────► doc/user/commands.md

doc/user/index.md and doc/user/scripting.md are hand-written; only doc/user/commands.md is regenerated. The doc target depends on the essim binary so a stale build is rebuilt before the dump is taken.

If either Doxygen or Python 3 is missing at CMake-configure time the doc target is silently disabled (the regular build still works) and a status line is emitted in the CMake log telling you which one to install.

Why a custom emitter rather than doxybook2 / moxygen

  • doxybook2 is not packaged in Arch / AUR and gets stale upstream.
  • moxygen drags Node into a pure-C++ project.
  • The emitter is one Python file (gen_api_md.py, ~330 lines) with zero external dependencies — easy to read, easy to tweak, robust to Doxygen version changes (the XML schema is stable).

Tailor the output by editing gen_api_md.py directly: add columns to the class table, change the source-link format, group sections differently, etc.

Comment style

The codebase uses standard Doxygen markers:

  • /// for single-line briefs.
  • /** … */ for multi-line blocks.
  • @param, @return, @brief (or @short) tags inside blocks.
  • @throws for exceptions a function may raise.

JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF = YES is set so the first sentence of a multi-line comment counts as the brief description without needing an explicit @brief tag.