Altova Authentic 2025 Desktop

The code snippet below (from the AutomateAuthenticDesktop example) lists the code for two event handlers. The AutomateAuthenticDesktop example (see the file Form1.cs) is located in the C# subfolder of the API Examples folder:

You can compile and run the project from within Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015/2017/2019/2022.

Code snippet

       delegate void addListBoxItem_delegate(string sText);

       // Called from the UI thread

       private void addListBoxItem(string sText)

       {

           listBoxMessages.Items.Add(sText);

       }

       // Wrapper method to call UI control methods from a worker thread

       void syncWithUIthread(Control ctrl, addListBoxItem_delegate methodToInvoke, String sText)

       {

           // Control.Invoke: Executes on the UI thread, but calling thread waits for completion before continuing.

           // Control.BeginInvoke: Executes on the UI thread, and calling thread doesn't wait for completion.

           if (ctrl.InvokeRequired)

               ctrl.BeginInvoke(methodToInvoke, new Object[] { sText });

       }

  // Event handler for OnDocumentOpened event

       private void handleOnDocumentOpened(XMLSpyLib.Document i_ipDocument)

       {

           String sText = "";

           if (i_ipDocument.Name.Length > 0)

               sText = "Document " + i_ipDocument.Name + " was opened!";

           else

               sText = "An empty document was created.";

           // Synchronize the calling thread with the UI thread because

           // COM events are triggered from a working thread

           addListBoxItem_delegate methodToInvoke = new addListBoxItem_delegate(addListBoxItem);

           // Call syncWithUIthread with the following arguments:

           // 1 - listBoxMessages - list box control to display messages from COM events

           // 2 - methodToInvoke  - a C# delegate which points to the method which will be called from the UI thread

           // 3 - sText           - the text to be displayed in the list box

           syncWithUIthread(listBoxMessages, methodToInvoke, sText);

       }

       private void checkBoxEventOnOff_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

       {

           if (AuthenticDesktop != null)

           {

               if (checkBoxEventOnOff.Checked)

                   AuthenticDesktop.OnDocumentOpened += new XMLSpyLib._IApplicationEvents_OnDocumentOpenedEventHandler(handleOnDocumentOpened);

               else

                   AuthenticDesktop.OnDocumentOpened -= new XMLSpyLib._IApplicationEvents_OnDocumentOpenedEventHandler(handleOnDocumentOpened);

           }

       }