Integrating External Tools

Sometimes an external tool which can be launched from the command line and which is different than a FO processor is needed. Oxygen XML Editor offers you the option of integrating such a tool by specifying just the command line for starting the executable file and its working directory. To integrate such a tool, open the Preferences dialog box and go to External Tools.

If the external tool is applied on one of the files opened in Oxygen XML Editor, enable the option for saving all edited files automatically when an external tool is applied.

External tools can be launched from the External tools drop-down list in the Tools toolbar or from the Tools > External tools submenu. While the action is running its icon is a stop icon . When the tool has finished running, it changes 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 that time.