Oxygen XML Forum

Hi there,

I've got a request to notify users about updates to our framework and tools when they start Oxygen. I was thinking there might be a way to hijack the Tip of the Day box and load it with our own content. I'm not seeing anything in the docs or finding a tell-tale xml file loaded with the tips. Perhaps its loading the tips from a url? Is there something buried in the sdk that would let me take control of that window?

Thanks,
David

Hi David,

If your Oxygen plugins or frameworks are packed and installed by users as add-ons:

http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2017/01/your- ... dd-on.html

In the Oxygen Preferences->"Add-ons" page users can check a checkbox to be notified for add-on updates.
Once you change in the addon XML stored on your internal web site description the add-on version, when Oxygen is started people will start receiving notifications that new updates are available.

About your current idea:
The tip of the day is loaded from an XML document located in the Oxygen main JAR library.
What you could do with a plugin would be to contribute a custom view which might show up when certain updates are checked out by your plugin's code from your server. But I think in this way you would just work a lot to duplicate our add-ons functionality which already works.

Regards,
Radu