Hussein, thanks for your reply, the second part of your answer (setting the preferences with putpref) describes exactly what we need.
I followed the instructions and the thing works perfectly now. :) Many thanks for the quick help! Best regards, J?rg On 10/12/07, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote: > J?rg Matysiak wrote: > > > > I'm currently installing XXE Pro 3.6.2 on our webserver in > > order to start it via Java WebStart. > > > > Is it possible to adjust the default saving options (codeset > > etc.), so that the users do not have to adjust them theirselves? > > > > I found there is a configuration property "saveOptions" and I > > think I should add it to any .xxe file. I tried to write my > > own custom.xxe and I also tried to add it to some of the > > standard .xxe files but none of that worked. > > > > [1] Save options may be specified in the configuration file associated > to a given document type. > > If your users create documents using a custom document type of yours, > simply add a saveOptions configuration element to the corresponding .xxe > configuration file. > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/saveOptions.html > > (Doing so will *not* work in customize.xxe, which does not parametrize > the behavior of XXE for a given document type.) > > > > [2] The above method is the cleanest one, but is not an option when, for > example, you want to force the encoding of save files created by XXE > whatever their document types. > > In such case, you need to force some of the user preferences in the > .jnlp Java Web Start deployment file. > > Let's take the encoding of the save files as an example. Let's suppose > you want to force the encoding to be Windows-1250. > > This user preference is called "encoding" and is documented here: > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.dialog.PreferencesEditorDialog.html#saveOptions > Notice: ``Preference key: encoding; type: any encoding supported by XXE; > default: UTF-8.'' > > Therefore, you need to specify the command line option > "-putpref encoding Windows-1250" to Java Web Start. > (-putpref is document here > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/command_line_usage.html) > > This may be done like this: > > <application-desc main-class="com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.start.WebStart"> > <argument>-putpref</argument> > <argument>encoding</argument> > <argument>Windows-1250</argument> > </application-desc> > > More information in the documentation of Java Web Start. >

