Yes, the SWT printing snippet uses threads. We might even use one with liblouisutdml for translating long documents, though I don't think this will be necessary. John On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:32:08PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > Well, first of all, there are these things called threads, guys, instead of > spawning heavy weight processes. > > Just a thought ... > > Ta ta > > Take care, > Sina > > > -----Original Message----- > From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Jolly > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:21 AM > To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Transforming C into Java > > In the first place, I don't see how you can avoid spawning some separate > processes such as for printing and embossing. So you can't > avoid that issue. > > As for rewriting your translator in Java, I can see advantages. However, I'm > not familiar with any automated way of transforming C > source to Java although Google suggests such tools might exist. My guess is > that even if you could get something that worked, the > resultant code would likely be unreadable and unmaintainable and with none of > the advantages of human-designed Java code. Think how > much trouble it is to convert print to braille, which is a much simpler > problem. > > Susan > > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities