According to the documentation at http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.guiutil.PreferencesEditorDialog.html,
Add-ons which depend on a specific version of XXE are installed in XXE_install_dir/addon/, other add-ons are installed in XXE_user_preferences_dir/addon/. This way, the add-ons which depend on a specific version of XXE, are automatically uninstalled when, in the future, you'll upgrade the application. Our IT administrators just updated us from 3.7.1 to 4.1.0 on our WinXP systems, and the XXE-supplied add-ons did *not* update. And in fact I as a user (not an administrator) can't do the update either. The problem seems to be that I can't uninstall the old add-ons, because I don't have 'modify' permission on the individual add-ons' directories. (I'm a bit confused because I'm pretty sure I was able to install the add-ons in the first place. Maybe it's a distinction between having 'write' permission to the addon dir, but not 'modify' permission--if I understand correctly, that would allow me to create new dirs, but not remove them, which is pretty bizarre. But that's Windows.) It seems like the documentation is the way it should be; that is, it makes sense for the program which installs an updated version of XXE to also update whatever plugins it finds. That way when our IT folks do the update, the program and its addons will be in synch (IT of course has all the permissions they need to the addon directories). Alternatively, is there a way to put the add-ons in a single location that all the licensed users of XXE (there are five of us) can run them from? That could be a place that we have write permission to, so we could update the plugins. (I realize that we could have *all* plugins installed in our "user's preferences directory", but if for some reason the program update can't automatically update the plugins, it would be better to have a single place to update the plugins from.) BTW, the radio button for "Install add-ons in XXE installation directory" in the Preferences dialog box is not grayed out--presumably because I can install (but not uninstall) add-ons there. Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD
