Exporting plugin functions to javascript

Hi,
Does anyone know how to call a plugin menu command function when app.execMenuItem is
ignored form within an XFA click event ?
Kind regards,
EmergentTime.

All SDK calls have to be made from the same thread, the Acrobat SDK does not
support mutli-threading. If you need to trigger a call to an SDK function
from anything but the main thread, you need to create a messaging mechanism,
so that tread "x" can send a message to the main thread and have it execute
that function. Anything else will fail - as you've noticed.
Karl Heinz Kremer
PDF Acrobatics Without a Net
[email protected]
http://www.khkonsulting.com

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> I'm confused by your application: if you already have a renditions loop, then why are you starting another export
I apologize for the confusion.
In each case I've exercised, there is only one export and one renditions loop.
The code I've been showing you is what gets executed to service a menu entry in File > Plug-In Extras. I'm focusing attention on that case because it seems more transparent. Notably, I get to specify which task the export happens on.
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2013-12-31 01:09:32 +0000, TRACE    destination path: /var/folders/4n/2lxf6v593x5_c3lmx_jghgnw0000gn/T/6F05FC8E-126C-47E0-AD51-C545CE0DA66D/tes torig.tif
2013-12-31 01:09:32 +0000, TRACE    source path/Users/myaccount/Desktop/jpeg-8d/testprog.jpg
2013-12-31 01:09:32 +0000, TRACE    destination path: /var/folders/4n/2lxf6v593x5_c3lmx_jghgnw0000gn/T/6F05FC8E-126C-47E0-AD51-C545CE0DA66D/tes tprog.tif
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