Making oXygen XML Editor (9.1) portable

• January 21, 2008
• James Skemp
• software, tutorials / guides

With flash drives becoming more and relevant, it's always good to find programs that can be run on these powerful drives. <oXygen/> XML Editor is one such program.

Making <oXygen/> portable

On the official site, there's a post regarding making <oXygen/> portable. However, what does it really involve?

Easily enough, it doesn't involve much more than is stated in the post.

First, you'll want to get a coyp of <oXygen/> installed onto your flash drive. I had previously installed <oXygen/> to my computer, so I just copied the Oxygen XML Editor 9 folder, within the Program Files directory, to my flash drive.

Next, there's a batch file called oxygen.bat in the main <oXygen/> directory.

If you open this in a text editor, like Notepad, you'll want to either comment out the below line, using rem at the beginning of the line, delete it, or modify it.

java  -Xss512k -Xmx256m -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Dcom.oxygenxml.ApplicationDataFolder="%APPDATA%" -cp %CP% ro.sync.exml.Oxygen %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 

The line you'll want to end up with is as follows.

java  -Duser.home=custom/license -Xss512k -Xmx256m -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Dcom.oxygenxml.ApplicationDataFolder="%APPDATA%" -cp %CP% ro.sync.exml.Oxygen %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 

The relevant text is -Duser.home=custom/license . In this case I've created a custom directory, under the <oXygen/> directory, as well as a license directory within that.

Once I run this batch file, it creates a lock file under this directory. In my case, G:\Oxygen XML Editor 9\custom\license\oxygen.lock

Once you've run the batch file, you can enter your license into <oXygen/> as usual. Once the copy has been registered, you can close out of <oXygen/> and/or the batch file. For any further <oXygen/> needs you can just open the main oxygen executable.

Portable apps

To see other applications that can be taken on the go, take a look at PortableApps.com.

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