[oXygen-sdk] [ann] oXygen XML Editor version 15

[Radu Coravu]

Hi all,

I am happy to announce that a new version of oXygen XML Editor is
available from our website:
http://www.oxygenxml.com

We added lots of interesting API in version 15.0:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#15.0Extended_API

Here's what I consider the top 5, most of them apply to the standalone 
version of Oxygen:

1) Contribute Custom Preferences Page From a Plugin

A plugin for the standalone version of Oxygen can contribute one or more 
preference pages to Oxygen's Preferences dialog.
Instead of having a separate dialog in which to configure your plugin's 
settings, they can now be seamlessly merged in Oxygen's Preferences 
dialog under the "Plugins" section.

2) Set Global Option from the API.

Force a certain Oxygen global option to a certain value using the API 
from a plugin in the standalone version of Oxygen. The API was already 
available for the Author Component API.

3) Show/Hide Views and Toolbars from the API

We already had the API to show a view/toolbar, now we added the API to 
hide a view/toolbar as well. So you can show/hide a view when 
appropriate (when a certain XML document is opened for example). Or you 
can hide the standard views which are contributed by Oxygen.

4) You can add toolbar actions which invoke a certain transformation 
scenario defined at document type level. So for example you can add a 
toolbar button called "PDF" with an appropriate icon which generates the 
PDF when the user clicks it.

5) Receive callbacks Before or After an Action Was Executed.
The "AuthorActionsProvider" API gives access to a lot of both common and 
document type-defined actions. You can now add a special listener which 
receives callbacks before and after an action is executed. In this way 
you can run custom code before or after the action's code and you can 
also reject the action's default code.

Additional changes interesting for developers:

1) We added a Button Group Form Control CSS extension:

> http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/topics/button-group-editor.html

which can be used to show in the Author mode a drop down button with 
various operations to choose from.

2) In the Oxygen Preferences there is a new preferences page called 
"Document Type Association / Locations". You can add there additional 
directories in which document types/frameworks are searched for.

3) In CSS we added support for @media print. So you can specify custom 
CSS selectors which are used only when the Author mode content gets 
printed using our Print and Print Preview actions and not when the 
content is shown to the user.

4) The annotations which can be presented for each XML element when 
hovering over it in the Text or Author mode can now have HTML content.
We used this for DITA and Docbook to show links to the specification for 
each element but this can also be used for any XML vocabulary.

If you run into any problems using the version 15.0 editor or Author 
Component please do not hesitate to contact us.

-- 
Regards,
Radu

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