As of V. 4.8, XXE is now automatically checking for updates. While I agree that in principle this is a useful feature, XXE and our company's firewall don't play nicely with each other, leaving XXE with "connection timed out" each time it tries to perform the check.
This is why in my case (several installations of XXE) I prefer to disable the automatic check for updates and make sure myself that we are staying up to date. I know I can disable the check interactively via "Help | Check for Updates" and unchecking (sorry for the pun) of "Automatically check for updates". But the documentation for XXE V. 4.8 still lacks info on how to do this using preference properties, either on the command-line or in a preferences.properties file, as explained at http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/command_line_usage.html (Obviously, with that function residing in the Help menu, its preference property is not described at the page "Preferences dialog box" where seemingly all of the other preference properties are described: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.guiutil.PreferencesEditorDialog.html ) By trial and error I discovered that probably I just need to set the property autoCheckForUpdates=false while the value of autoCheckForUpdates.date (if present) is ignored then. Can you confirm that this is correct? Best, Yves -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
