When your XML project requires to run an external tool different than a FO processor and which can be launched from the command line <oXygen/> offers you the option of integrating the tool by specifying just the command line for starting the executable file of the tool and its working directory. To integrate such a tool go to External Tools → +
If the external tool is applied on one of the files opened in <oXygen/> you should enable the option for saving all edited files automatically when an external tool is applied.
External tools can be launched from the External tools
toolbar or from the submenu → . While the action is running its icon is a stop icon:
. When the tool has finished running it will change the icon back to
the original run icon:
. Please note that even though you can stop the external tool by
invoking the action again while it is running, that doesn't mean you can also
stop the processes spawned by that external tool. This is especially a limiting
factor when running a batch file as the batch will be stopped but without
actually stopping the processes that the batch was running at the time.
As example let us integrate the Ant build tool in <oXygen/>. The procedure for this purpose is:
Test your Ant installation from the command line in the
directory where you want to use Ant from <oXygen/>, for example run
the clean target of your build.xml
file C:\projects\XMLproject\build.xml
: ant
clean
Create a new external tool entry with the name Ant
tool, the working directory C:\projects\XMLproject
and the command line
"C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat" clean
obtained by browsing to the ant.bat
file
from directory C:\projects\XMLproject
Run the tool from Command results panel:
→ → . You can see the output in the
Started: "C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat" clean Buildfile: build.xml clean: [echo] Delete output files. [delete] Deleting 5 files from C:\projects\XMLproject BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second