The Global preferences panel is opened from menu .
The following user preferences are av available in this panel:
- Automatic Version Checking -
When enabled, checks the availability of new
Oxygen XML Author
versions at http://www.oxygenxml.com
.
- Language - The application
supports a number of languages for localization of the GUI. Go to menu and select the Language drop-down list to display the
language choices.
Note: After restarting the application, if some GUI labels are not rendered
correctly (for example Chinese or Korean characters) you will need to install the
corresponding language pack from your OS installation kit (for example the East-Asian
language pack).
- Other language - To change
the user interface language of
Oxygen XML Author
you must set
here the properties file with all the user interface messages and labels translated to your
preferred language. For details about creating this file see
the section describing the creation
process. After setting the file you have to restart
Oxygen XML Author
in order to
change the user interface language to your preferred language.
- Look and Feel - Use this
option to change graphic style (look and feel) of the GUI.
- 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:
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 line
separator of the platform.
- Detect the line separator on file
open - When this option is checked the editor will detect the line separator
when the edited file is loaded and it will use 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 executable. The browser is used for:
- opening (X)HTML or PDF transformation results
- opening the Oxygen home
page
- pointing to specific paragraphs in the W3C recommendation of XML Schema on the W3C
website in case of XML Schema validation errors
- Open last edited files from project - When
enabled, Oxygen will open the last
edited files from project at start-up.
- Beep on operation finished - If checked, it
notifies the user through a beep that an action has ended. It will notify the user only at
the end of validate, check well-formedness and transform actions.
- 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 Author
. If a
different VM is used, then a warning is displayed. This option allows the user to
choose whether the warning dialog is shown or not.
- Use custom frameworks
directory - For editing different types of XML documents (for content
completion, validation, authoring) Oxygen can use information from the
document types which are stored in the frameworks subfolder of the Oxygen install folder. If a custom
frameworks folder is specified then Oxygen will load the document types
from this location.
- Auto update unmodified editors on file system
changes - Checked by default. If checked, the synchronization of the
unmodified (not dirty) editors with the system changes is done automatically, without the
user's interaction.
- Last visited directory - The dialog for opening files remembers the last
visited folder and the next time it starts directly in this folder.
- Directory of the edited file - The dialog for opening
files 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.