How to stop/pause running third party exe?

[2bGeek]

I do need help as how do you actually stop the running application (same third party exe; that is executed earlier in the program.).. without stopping the whole GUI.
the problem am having is that when application is running.. non of the buttons respond on the GUI. My code is as below:

try {
                Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
                File file = fc.getSelectedFile();         //defined earlier in code.
                result = file.getPath();                     //defined earlier in code.
                String command = "cmd /c clic c:\\mp3play.gd -i " + result;
                Process pr = rt.exec(command);
                BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream()));

                String line=null;

                while((line=input.readLine()) != null) {
                    System.out.println(line);
                }

                int exitVal = pr.waitFor();
                System.out.println("Exited with error code "+exitVal);

            } catch(Exception e) {
                System.out.println(e.toString());
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

When I execute, the whole GUI becomes irresponsive untill the application stops by it self.
Thanks in advance!!

[OrangeDog]

You're going to need to use some kind of threading here. Pay special attention to the tutorial Threading in Swing

[devunion]

May be

Process.destroy();

?

As mentioned above, you need to run another thread with timeout checking code before.

[toadaly]

Orange Dog is correct. You need multiple threads. On the surface, this sounds easy, but in practice, multi-threaded programming is where the fun (diffculty) and $ is.

A simple approach, which might be sufficient here, would be to have your button press disable the button, spawn a new thread, which then enables that button when the thread completes. something like...

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     button.setEnabled(false);

      new Thread() {
         public void run() {
            ...all your code you were doign here...

            button.setEnabled(true);
         }
      }.start();
  }
});