Indeed, Radu, "om.oxygenxml.editor.home.url" is exactly what I need. Thanks so much, Michael Roberts On 4/29/10 3:30 AM, "Radu Coravu" <radu_coravu@sync.ro> wrote: Dear Michael, Indeed probably the current directory remains the directory from which the "open" was called. Either you change the current directory to the Oxygen directory before running the "open" (of course if you have some way to find it out) or: All the system properties available from Oxygen can be found in the Help->About dialog in the "System properties" tab. For example the following system property which is set by Oxygen on launch: "com.oxygenxml.editor.home.url" may be useful to you (it is in URL form). Also the "com.oxygenxml.editor.lib.dir" points to the Oxygen libraries directory using a file path. Hope this helps. Regards, Radu -- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 4/28/2010 3:18 PM, Michael Roberts wrote:

Oxygen-heads: I have a log4j.properties file for testing a plugin that integrates Oxygen and RSuite. I am currently using Mac OS X.

log4j.appender.R.File=oxygen-rsuite-plugin.log

If I use oxygenMac.sh from the command-line, the oxygen-rsuite-plugin.log file shows up in the current directory where I run the command.

If I launch Oxygen from the "open" command on Mac OS X (from an applet in FireFox), then the current working directory is in some random place (that I cannot find).

Log4j permits variable substitution in the log4j.properties, from system properties. Are there sysem properties set by Oxygen for the installation directory or some other place where I can locate the log file so it will be in a consistent place? I would like to be able to specify something like this in the log4j.properties file:

log4j.appender.R.File=${oxygen.home}/oxygen-rsuite-plugin.log

Thanks, Michael Roberts

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