Inheritance

Identifying inherited and virtual functions is very important. We propose that in the first pass when building the database, cxx2html could also extract all public and protected functions and store their signatures in the database. It could mark virtual functions. In the second pass it could look in the database at the parent(s) of a class, their parents, etc.. and do the following:

• Always precede a virtual function with the word virtual.
• Make a link on the word virtual to link it to the same function in the nearest parent.
• Show inherited functions in the public and protected summary. This could be done by preceding the function with the word inherited and making a link on that word similar as above. In that way inherited functions do not need their own category in the summary and are correctly listed as public or protected.