Global Preferences

The global options cover a number of aspects of the overall operation of Oxygen XML Editor. To configure the Global options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Global.

The following options are available in the Global preferences page:

• Automatic Version Checking - This option sets whether Oxygen XML Editor will check for a new version on startup.
• Check for notifications - If enabled, the application will check for various types of messages from the Oxygen XML Editor website and they will be displayed in the status bar. The types of messages include the addition of new videos on the website, the announcement of upcoming webinars and conferences where the Oxygen XML Editor team will participate, and more. This option is enabled by default.
• Language - This option sets the language used in the user interface to English, French, German, Dutch, or Japanese. You must restart Oxygen XML Editor for the change to take effect.
• Other language - This option sets the language used in the user interface using an interface localization file. For details about creating this file, see Localizing the User Interface. You can use this option to set the language of the user interface to a language that is not shipped with Oxygen XML Editor.
  Note: If some interface labels are not rendered correctly after restarting the application, (for example Chinese or Korean characters are not displayed correctly), make sure that your operating system has the appropriate language pack installed (for example the East-Asian language pack).
• Line separator - This option sets the line separator used when saving files. Use System Default to select the normal line separator for your OS. If you want the existing file separator of a file to be maintained, regardless of your current OS, check Detect the line separator on file open.
• Detect the line separator on file open - When this option is selected, the editor detects the line separator when a file is loaded and it uses it when the file is saved. New files are saved using the line separator defined by theLine separator option.
• Default Internet browser - This option sets the Web browser that Oxygen XML Editor will use to do the following:
  • Open (X)HTML or PDF transformation results.
  • Open a web page (for example, pointing to specific paragraphs in the W3C recommendation of XML Schema if there are XML Schema validation errors).
  If you leave this setting blank, the system default browser will be used.
• Open last edited files from project - When this option is enabled,Oxygen XML Editor opens the files you had open the last time you used a project whenever you open the application or switch to that project.
• Beep on operation finished - When this option is selected, Oxygen XML Editor beeps when a validation or transform action ends. Different tones are used for success and failure. The tones used may depend on your operating system's sound settings.
• Show memory status - When this option is selected, the memoryOxygen XML Editor uses is displayed in the status bar. To free memory, click the Free unused memory button located at the right side of the status bar. The memory status bar turns yellow or red when Oxygen XML Editor uses too much memory. You can change the amount of memory available to Oxygen XML Editor by changing the parameters of the application launcher.
• Check opened files for file system changes - When this option is selected, Oxygen XML Editor checks the content of the all opened editors to see if they have been updated by another application. If the file has changed, Oxygen XML Editor will ask you if you want to reload the file.
  • Auto update unmodified editors on file system changes - If this option is selected, Oxygen XML Editor automatically updates unmodified editors if the edited file changes externally.
• Show Java vendor warning at startup - If this option is selected, Oxygen XML Editor displays a warning on startup if a non-recommended version of the Java virtual machine is being used.

• File Chooser Dialog - This options sets the directory that will be shown when the Open file dialog box is displayed.

  • Last visited directory - The last visited folder will be displayed.
  • Directory of the edited file - The folder where the currently edited file is stored will be displayed.
• Show hidden files and directories - If this option is selected, Oxygen XML Editor shows system hidden files and folders in the file browser dialog box and the folder browser dialog box. This setting is not available on OS X.