January 2014 - oXygen-sdk - www.oxygenxml.com

[ann] oXygen XML Editor 15.2
by Radu Coravu 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Hi all, I am happy to announce that a new version of oXygen XML Editor, Author and Developer is available from our website: http://www.oxygenxml.com You can find the release notes and details about the new additions at http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html From the developer point of view, we added more API in 15.2: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html#15.2Extended_API CSS support for visual editing was vastly improved: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html#15.2CSS_Support I wrote more details about the CSS improvements on the Oxygen XML Blog: http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2014/01/oxygen-152-new-author-visual-editor-css.h… On the visual editing side: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html#15.2XML_Visual_Editing We added a new Text Area form control + support to properly render JPEG images with CMYK profiles and pluggable support to render PDF images. We also experimented with embedding the Author Component as a Java application inside a Sharepoint web application: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html#15.2CMS_Integration_and_Connect… Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Re: [oXygen-sdk] Custom action for results in search window
by Nathan 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hi Alex, I am looking to perform this action on the results of the "Open/Find Resource" view. So, if a particular "Open/Find Resource" operation retrieved 5 results in the "Open/Find Resource" results and I am interested in 3 out of the 5 results, I would like to select 3 out of the 5 and provide a custom action on right click. It looked like there was no way to access to the "Open/Find Resource" search results from the API so I wanted to check. Regards, Nathan

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Implementation of AuthorExtensionStateListener
by Nathan 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hi, I am using Oxygen 15's inbuilt DITA framework and I would like to customize it by showing a Swing based form when Oxygen Author has been opened. This form will be used to set custom variables which can then be used later on. I am planning to do this using the Author API, specifically the AuthorExtensionStateListener interface (I saw a sample at " http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-author/index.html#topics/dg-author-extensio…" in this regard). I presume the next step would be to register an implementation of AuthorListener (or extend the "AuthorListenerAdapter" class) within the activate method of the implementation of AuthorExtensionStateListener interface. My questions are as follows: a) Is this the best way to implement what I have in mind? b) There does not seem to be any Author window event which can be used to popup the form. I see others for doctypeChanged(), documentChanged etc here but nothing to record a opening-of-author event. I feel like I am missing something here and would greatly appreciate some help. If there is a better way to do this, I am all ears. Just a note, I cannot use plugins since this has to work for people who use Oxygen Author standalone and those who use the Author plugin within eclipse. My current code structure something like this... File 1: public class ditaAuthorExtensionStateListener implements AuthorExtensionStateListener{ .... .... public void activated(...){ // Add author document listeners. ditaAuthorDocumentListener = new DitaAuthorListener(); authorAccess.getDocumentController().addAuthorListener(ditaAuthorDocumentListener); } File 2: public class DitaAuthorListener implements AuthorListener{ ..... ..... // I am stuck here since I do not find any method which is triggered on opening Oxygen Author. Thanks a bunch! Nathan

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Custom action for results in search window
by Nathan 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi, I would like to add a custom action to items selected in the search window using the Author API. Is this possible? Where can I find some information on how to go about doing this? Thanks, Nathan

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Using the Author SDK
by Nathan 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, I am looking at the Author API to develop some custom actions for our Oxygen Author implementation. However, going through the javadoc of the API doesn't strike me as being as the most productive way to know about the possibilities of the Author API. Is there any plan (if something already exists, I would love to be directed to it) to develop something like this - " https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/GuavaExplained" for the Author API? Thanks, Nathan

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Reading oXygen preferences
by Jan Bevers 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi Is there a way to get the value of following oXygen preferences through an API: * Checked opened files for file system changes * Auto update unmodified editors on file system changes And a way on subscribing to changes made on those settings? Kind regards Jan Bevers | Developer | SDL | Content Management Technologies Division | +32 (0)15 400 970 | jbevers(a)sdl.com [image001] </pre> <a href="http://www.sdl.com/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email%2BSignature&utm_campa…"> <img src="http://www.sdl.com/Content/themes/common/images/SDL_logo_strapline_GCEM_Ema…" border=0> www.sdl.com </a> SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com

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Question about CustomComponentsValidator
by Jan Bevers 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi all In my integration with oXygen 14 I use a custom Components Validator to hide some menu items from the user. I noticed that in oXygen 15.1 these buttons are not getting hidden anymore. I checked my code and the constructor of my class was not getting called anymore when using oXygen 15.1 My plugin.xml contains following entry (works for 14.2, not for 15.1): <extension type="componentsValidator" class="com.sdl.trisoft.oxygen.CustomComponentsValidatorPluginExtension"/> Was there a change regarding the ComponentsValidator in oXygen 15.1? Kind regards Jan Bevers | Developer | SDL | Content Management Technologies Division | +32 (0)15 400 970 | jbevers(a)sdl.com [image001] </pre> <a href="http://www.sdl.com/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email%2BSignature&utm_campa…"> <img src="http://www.sdl.com/Content/themes/common/images/SDL_logo_strapline_GCEM_Ema…" border=0> www.sdl.com </a> SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com

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Issue with custom protocol handler and href with dots
by Jan Bevers 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Hi I noticed that when a reference has dots in it oXygen never asks my Custom Protocol Handler to resolve it. I have an image tag that looks as followed: <image href="GUID.7A23068F.1C34.46A2.849F.91FF00B9D586"/> When I put a breakpoint on the openConnection(URL url) method I don't see any request coming in to resolve this reference. If I put ".jpg" at the end of this reference for example I can see a request coming in. Cheers Jan Bevers | Developer | SDL | Content Management Technologies Division | +32 (0)15 400 970 | jbevers(a)sdl.com [image001] </pre> <a href="http://www.sdl.com/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email%2BSignature&utm_campa…"> <img src="http://www.sdl.com/Content/themes/common/images/SDL_logo_strapline_GCEM_Ema…" border=0> www.sdl.com </a> SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com

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Enhancement request for AttributeEditingContextDescription
by Jan Bevers 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi Since oXygen 15 it's possible to get the context for the current edited element / attribute from your own custom InputURLChooserCustomizer implementation. In some of our cases it is important to pass the current value of the edited attribute to our own dialogs. If I check the API of the AttributeEditingContextDescription you can only get the element and attribute name. I can stick with the functionality that there is now but it would definitely improve the usability of our integration if the value was also available. Is it possible to add the possibility to get the attribute value to the oXygen backlog? So we can take advantage from this in the next releases. Cheers Jan Bevers | Developer | SDL | Content Management Technologies Division | +32 (0)15 400 970 | jbevers(a)sdl.com [image001] </pre> <a href="http://www.sdl.com/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email%2BSignature&utm_campa…"> <img src="http://www.sdl.com/Content/themes/common/images/SDL_logo_strapline_GCEM_Ema…" border=0> www.sdl.com </a> SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com

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