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VisDoc: another ActionScript doc tool

Wednesday 7 July 2004  –  Filed under: Software  –  No Comments

Due to the lack of a good tool from Macromedia, people are starting to write their own software to generate ActionScript documentation with. Today, another such tool has entered the arena. Dubbed VisDoc, it is the most powerful tool around, for as far as I know, to create documentation.

VisDoc is written in Apple’s Cocoa by one of my co-workers at Lost Boys, Arthur Clemens. Since it is written in Cocoa, VisDoc in solely available for the Mac OS X platform. As it is based on XLST, it allows for maximum output flexibility.

Some of the key features:

• Parses methods, properties, class type, superclasses, interfaces
• Parses “get” and “set” methods as property variables; recognizes cases when get and set use different variable types
• Parses Javadoc style comments, with additional fields, see Supported tags
• Links superclasses
• Links inherited methods and properties from all superclasses
• Processes multiple documents, multiple folders
• Resolves included scripts, recursively

Contrary to most other documentation apps, VisDoc is a commercial product, selling for US$29. Of course, there’s a trial version available, but it is slightly crippled as it will reverse one out of four generated documentation files. But that should be enough to get to know the application.

Provided you have a Mac around, I’d highly recommend you check out the VisDoc homepage.

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