Setting Preferences

You can set preferences at any time by choosing Preferences... from the Edit menu. The XML Console Preferences dialog box (Figure A) will appear with several program options and path settings.

Figure A - Preferences dialog box

In the upper panel of the dialog box, there are two check boxes for setting Options:

Refresh all files in (minutes) - will validate all files in an open project as a batch. The default value is 8 minutes. To change this, click in the check box and, in the adjacent text box, enter a refresh interval in minutes (must be a positive number).
Protect delete - when this option is enabled, XML Console will prompt you for confirmation before deleting any files. This option is disabled by default. Click in the check box to enable this option.

In the middle panel of the dialog box, there are two check boxes for Help options:

Use external browser -check this box to have XML Console display help files in your preferred web browser.
Use web help -if you prefer not to have the help files saved locally, check this box to have XML Console access Extensibility's online help files and display them in your preferred browser.

In the lowest panel of the dialog box, there are three text boxes for Paths. XML Console automatically detects your system's default browser as well as Extensibility's XML Authority and/or XML Instance, if installed, and sets their pathnames in the text boxes. If you choose to override one or more of these defaults:

Browser path - use the Browse... button to locate your preferred browser's executable (.exe) file, or type the full pathname into the textbox.
Schema Editor path - use the Browse... button to locate your preferred schema editor's executable (.exe) file, or type the full pathname into the textbox.
XML Editor - use the Browse... button to locate your preferred XML editor's executable (.exe) file, or type the full pathname into the textbox.

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