The Global options panel is opened from menu Options > Preferences > Global.
The following user options are available:
Automatic Version
Checking - When enabled, checks the availability of a new Oxygen XML Author version.
Language - You can
choose between English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese and Italian to localize the
interface. Restart the application to apply the current selection.
Other language -
Allows you to set the file containing interface messages translated into a language other
than the default ones. For details about creating this
file, see the Localization of the User
Interface section.
Note: After restarting the application, if some interface labels are not rendered correctly
(for example Chinese or Korean characters), install the corresponding language pack from
your OS installation kit (for example the East-Asian language pack).
Look and Feel -
Use this option to change graphic style (look and feel) of the user interface.
Styles - On
Windows there are available the following styles:
Office 2003
Vsnet
Eclipse
Xerto
Default
Note: After changing the style, you have to restart the application in order for the
modification to take effect.
On Linux there are available the following
styles:
Eclipse
Default
Note: After changing the style, you have to restart the application in order for the
modification to take effect.
On Mac OS X this option is not available.
Themes - On
Windows this option is enabled only for the Office 2003 and
Default styles. In these cases, the following themes are available:
Normal Color
Home Stead
Metallic
Default
Gray
On Linux and Mac OS X this option is not available.
Line separator -
This option defines the line separator. The System Default choice
sets the platform-specific line separator.
Detect the line separator on
file open - When this option is checked, the editor detects the line separator
when the edited file is loaded and it uses it when the file is saved. The new files are
saved using the line separator defined by the Line separator
option.
Default
Internet browser - The path to a web browser of choice, used for:
opening (X)HTML or PDF transformation results;
opening a web page (for example, pointing to specific paragraphs in the W3C
recommendation of XML Schema in case of XML Schema validation errors).
Open last edited files from
project - When enabled, Oxygen XML opens the last edited
files from project at start-up.
Beep on operation finished - Oxygen XML emits a short beep when
a validate, check well-formedness, or transform action has ended.
Show Java vendor warning at
startup - Sun Microsystems/Oracle Java VM (on Windows and Linux) or
Apple Computer Java VM (on Mac OS X) is recommended for running Oxygen XML. If a different Java
Virtual Machine is used, then a warning is displayed. This option allows the user to choose
whether the warning dialog is shown or not.
Current frameworks directory -
Location of the directory that holds default framework-specific files (like templates,
schema files and catalogs to name a few). You can change its value using the
com.oxygenxml.editor.frameworks.url property set either in the Oxygen XML.vmoptions configuration files or in the startup
scripts.
Use custom
frameworks directory - For editing different types of XML documents (for
content completion, validation, authoring) Oxygen XML can use information from
the document types which are stored in the frameworks subfolder of the
application's install folder. If a custom frameworks folder is
specified, then Oxygen XML loads
the document types from this location.
Auto update unmodified editors on file system
changes - Oxygen XML updates automatically unmodified editors when the edited file changes externally. By
default this option is disabled, meaning that you are prompted to decide if you want Oxygen XML to update the file
content.
Last visited directory - When
selected, the Open file dialog memorizes
the last visited folder. When used next time, it starts directly in this folder.
Directory of the edited file -
The Open file
dialog starts in the folder where the currently edited file is stored.
Show hidden files and directories - Shows system hidden files and
folders in the file browser dialog and the folder browser dialog. This setting is not
available on Mac OS X.