my 2 cents

After a hard period of coding a lot of javascript, I wanted to run a code documentation tool for auto generated docu of my classes.

Therefore I used the docu tags as I found them in the sourcecode of the ExtJS library with the strong feeling that I just have to download the appropriate tool when I want to generate my docu.

Foolish me! After some hard googleing I found, that there is no such tool out. There are quite a few projects dealing with javascipt docu, but they all don’t understand the ExtJS slang.

ExtJS itself uses an internal tool, which they don’t want to publish. Luckily I found a thread in the ExtJS Forum where a user claimed to have a working solution, but also this user didn’t want to share it.

A small side-note made me hoping to find his code in the official jsdoc-toolkit project. So I searched  the projects svn repository, but w.o. success. Frustrated i began coding myself a solution. Driven by the thought, that the ExtJS Forum user must have had at least committed something to the Jsdoc-toolkit project I started my svn browser again and searched explicitly for such an commit.

Surprised I found that there must have happened some really ugly scenes in this project. With revision 476 all the work on a ExtJS compatible version where doped.

But hey, it’s SVN Just checkout revision 471. I don’t dare to publish an Archive of it here, as i don’t know if there are any licensing issues. Moreover the efforts are not completed yet, but it looks really promising:

I’ll try to contact the author and see if we can bring this to a successful end.