[oXygen-user] Strategies for preserving Java settings when upgrading oXygen?

[Oxygen XML Editor Support]

Hi David,

Hopefully in v16.0 this won't be necessary anymore as we're currently 
investigating the possibility of keeping an additional .vmoptions file 
in the Oxygen options folder (in the user profile) and thus have this 
persistent after upgrading/reinstalling.

At this time (v15.2 and earlier) a simple trick is to duplicate the 
startup launcher (and its .vmoptions file for Windows/Linux) and thus 
keep your .vmoptions file distinct from Oxygen's.
e.g.
Windows/Linux: Duplicate 'oxygen15.2'(.exe) and 'oxygen15.2.vmoptions', 
rename them similarly, 'myOxygen4G'(.exe) and 'myOxygen4G.vmoptions' and 
modify the duplicate .vmoptions file.
OS X: Duplicate the 'Oxygen XML Editor.app' and rename it to your liking 
'myOxygen4G.app' and edit the 'Info.plist' file from the duplicate.

This way you could keep using your duplicate launcher without being 
affected by the default launcher and its .vmoptions which get 
overwritten when upgrading/reinstalling.

Regards,
Adrian

Adrian Buza
oXygen XML Editor and Author Support

Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202
Fax: +40-251-461482
support at oxygenxml.com
http://www.oxygenxml.com


On 27.03.2014 21:27, David Sewell wrote:
> Because I often work with large XML files, I need to modify the default Java
> settings for oXygen to allow more maximum memory (-Xmx4096m instead of the
> default 1024 usually).
>
> In the Mac environment, this is easy to do by editing the Info.plist file, but I
> always forget to do it when I upgrade oXygen and only discover it when opening a
> large file causes problems.
>
> Does anyone have a (semi-)automated way to preserve settings like this, or
> should I just try to remember? (I could put a file in the oXygen directory
> called "000_REMEMBER_TO_INCREASE_JAVA_MEMORY.txt" !)
>
> David
>