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This is a Dash-compatible docset for the Maya C++ API reference. It has been built against the 2016 documentation, but should work for 2017 as well.

Usage

Place the maya-2016-cpp-reference.docset folder in your directory that is used by Zeal/Dash/Velocity to lookup docsets. Please refer to your respective application's documentation for how to install such things.

Building

Dependencies

You will need to install the dependencies listed in requirements.txt through pip or have it available on your PYTHONPATH.

Generating the docset

The Python scripts for building the database and formatting the documentation to work in standalone mode are located in the bin directory. The Autodesk documentation should be placed in the directory: maya-2016-cpp-reference.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents. Once that is done, you should be able to run python clean_html_documentation.py and python generate_database_entries.py in order to re-generate the docset. The formatted HTML output will be placed in maya-2016-cpp-reference.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/output, which you should move to the Documents directory instead.

License

Except for the documentation itself (which belongs to Autodesk and is freely available for download via their website), the license for the scripts in this repository is viewable in the LICENSE file.

Author

Siew Yi Liang