[oXygen-user] Java plugin

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Siyan,

Our plugins development kit (+ Java samples and documentation) can be 
found here:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/developer.html#Developer_Plugins

Documentation about plugins can also be found here:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/index.html?q=/doc/ug-oxygen/concepts/oxygen-plugin.html

You should try to look at the "Workspace Access" plugin type (and sample 
implementation).

> 1.       When user does a Save (File + Save), display a dialog box from which the user can proceed with the Normal Save or  select other options to do some custom saves to a database.

We do not yet have listeners to notify you when a file is saved.
Is the file you are trying to save from the local disk?

We have a type of plugin called "Custom Protocol Plugin" which allows 
you to implement a custom java URLHandler for your own URL protocol like 
"cms:....". Then you would be implementing the load/save operations in 
your URLHandler by creating the input and output streams and you would 
be able to ask the user where to save the output.
But this means that initially the file would have to be opened through 
your custom protocol.

We also have an article about writing a CMS integration plugin:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/index.html?q=/doc/ug-oxygen/tasks/howto-cms-plugin.html

Maybe you can also add a new action on the JMenuBar which the user would 
call explicitly to save the file to another location.

> 2.       Add new options/actions under File that do custom processing

The Workspace Access plugin allows you access to the main JMenuBar so 
you can customize it according to your needs.


Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 6/6/2011 3:57 PM, Siyan, Karanjit (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] wrote:
> I am looking for sample starter code on writing a Java plugin which
> shows how to do the following:
>
> 1.When user does a Save (File + Save), display a dialog box from which
> the user can proceed with the Normal Save or select other options to do
> some custom saves to a database.
>
> 2.Add new options/actions under File that do custom processing
>
> I am familiar with Java but not with Oxygen’s plugin architecture. Any
> pointers on what documentation to start with would also be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karanjit
>
>
>
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