Experts,
I have a project to convert 1000's of tif images to pdf. In order speed up the process i'm trying to use a thread pool.
The code below loops through all the directories/files but only converts a few hundred files (no errors).
I think the issue is how I have implement the threading. Can you enlighten me on the correct threading method?
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Threading
Imports GdPicture14
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
' Get recursive List of all files starting in this directory.
Dim tifFiles As New List(Of String)
Dim folderStack As New Stack(Of String)
Dim fileStack As New Stack(Of String)
Dim currFile As String = ""
Dim Count = 0
Dim w As WaitCallback = New WaitCallback(AddressOf cvt1)
folderStack.Push("C:\testfolder")
Do While (folderStack.Count > 0)
' Get top directory string
Dim dir As String = folderStack.Pop
Try
' Add all immediate file paths
If Not Directory.Exists(dir.Replace("C:\", "D:\")) Then
Directory.CreateDirectory(dir.Replace("C:\", "D:\"))
End If
For Each file In Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.tif")
fileStack.Push(file)
Next
Do While (fileStack.Count > 0)
currFile = fileStack.Pop
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(w, currFile)
ConversionCount.Text += 1
ConversionCount.Refresh()
currFile = ""
Loop
' Loop through all subdirectories and add them to the stack.
Dim directoryName As String = ""
For Each directoryName In Directory.GetDirectories(dir)
folderStack.Push(directoryName)
Next
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox("Error: " & vbCrLf & ex.ToString, MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Error!")
End Try
Loop
End Sub
Public Function cvt1(ByVal f As String) As String
Dim oConverter As GdPictureDocumentConverter = New GdPictureDocumentConverter()
Dim status As GdPictureStatus = oConverter.LoadFromFile(f, GdPicture14.DocumentFormat.DocumentFormatIFF)
If status = GdPictureStatus.OK Then
f = f.Replace("C:\", "D:\")
f = f.Replace(".tif", ".pdf")
status = oConverter.SaveAsPDF(f, PdfConformance.PDF1_7)
If status <> GdPictureStatus.OK Then
MessageBox.Show("The file has failed to save. Status: " + status.ToString(), "TIFF to PDF", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
End If
Return True
Else
Return False
MessageBox.Show("The file has failed to load. Status: " + status.ToString(), "TIFF to PDF Example", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
End If
End Function
End Class