A. Perri wrote: > > i finally was able to embed your supper dupper ditac converter into our Java > application. I even found a solution for the "Cannot find > CatalogManager.properties" problem below. > > Now i am really really stumped. I would like to cancel the converter > process after it is launched via a dialog. Is there a means you know of > to do this? > I believe i need a thread that monitors your ditac thread to send it a > message or notification when specified to do so to terminate it. >
This level of support is reserved to the customers of XMLmind products. However I'll answer your question because the answer is quite simple: No, you don't necessarily need a separate thread. However you may want to use one in case you want [1] to keep the UI responsive [2] to forcibly stop the conversion using Thread.stop in an emergency case (i.e. because the conversion loops forever) In all cases, pass a Console http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/util/Console.html to the Converter using http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/ditac/convert/Converter.html#setConsole(com.xmlmind.util.Console) When you want to cancel the conversion, do it from the code of your Console. That is, throw a special kind of exception (e.g. ConversionCanceledException) from http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/util/Console.html#showMessage(java.lang.String,%20com.xmlmind.util.Console.MessageType) Excerpts from our own code: --- public void run() { progressMonitor.start(); conversionStatus = Status.RUNNING; // Used by Saxon to load its extensions. Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader( getClass().getClassLoader()); try { doRun(); conversionStatus = Status.DONE; } catch (ConversionCanceledException e) { progressMonitor.message(Msg.msg("conversionCanceled"), MessageType.INFO); conversionStatus = Status.CANCELED; } catch (Exception e) { progressMonitor.message(runErrorReason(e), MessageType.ERROR); conversionStatus = Status.FAILED; } finally { progressMonitor.stop(); } } --- The implementation of Console looks like: --- public void showMessage(String message, MessageType messageType) { if (cancelConversion) { throw new ConversionCanceledException(); } // Otherwise, display message here. ... } --- -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
