Alain Pierrot wrote: > >> Reload All Configurations >> >> Reloads all configuration files found by XXE at startup time. This >> command is disabled if one or more documents are opened in the >> editor. >> >> Without this command, testing modifications made to an existing >> configuration requires you to restart the editor. Note that >> restarting the editor is still required to make it discover new >> configurations or to reload support code (i.e. |.jar| files). >> >> This menu item is available only in XMLmind XML Editor >> Professional Edition. >> >> >> Note >> >> As of v3.6, *t**his menu item is no longer present by default in >> the **Options** menu of Professional Edition*. >> >> If you need this menu item, for example when developing a custom >> XXE configuration, set environment variable |XXE_GUI| to value >> "|xxe-gui:app/Developer.xxe_gui|" and restart XXE. >> > > Local gurus customizing XXE on Macs will most probably regret the > decision to omit this option, given the limitation to customized > .xxe_gui on Macs. >> >> Note that, due to limitations in Apple's Java? launcher, you >> cannot use the following environment variables on the Mac >> > [...] >> XXE_GUI >> > > > Restarting XXE is significantly longer than closing the test files, > reloading the configuration and reopening the test files. > Btw, it would be very nice, when using this option on any platform, to > automatize this tedious sequence of operations. > > Could this option be restored as a default in a further version if > others are interested? >
No, we'll not do that. Rationale: XXE Pro has an "Options|Customize Configuration" menu. With menu item "Reload All Configurations" next to the above menu, the user will have the impression that after customizing a configuration, she/he has to manually reload all configurations, which is absolutely not true. Now, if you and others are interested, I can put online an alternate, more Unix-ish, distribution for the Mac. * This distribution is packaged as a ".zip" archive (as opposed to the ".dmg" of the normal distribution). * XXE is started using "XXE_install_dir/bin/xxe", the same shell script used on Linux. * "XXE_install_dir/bin/xxe" has of course no problems with environment variables such as: export XXE_GUI="xxe-gui:app/Developer.xxe_gui" * The XXE started this way is *as* *functional* *and* *as* *Mac-aware* as the XXE started by double-clicking on the XMLEdit.app application bundle (contained in the ".dmg" distribution). If you are interested, please inform me today because I'll be absent next week (vacations in London).
