You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Xojo project file within the examples folder: /Compression/Old
MenuBar MenuBar1
MenuItem UntitledMenu1 = ""
MenuItem FileMenu = "&File"
MenuItem FileQuit = "Quit"
MenuItem EditMenu = "&Edit"
MenuItem EditUndo = "&Undo"
MenuItem UntitledMenu0 = "-"
MenuItem EditCut = "Cu&t"
MenuItem EditCopy = "&Copy"
MenuItem EditPaste = "&Paste"
MenuItem EditClear = "Clear"
End MenuBar
Class App Inherits Application
EventHandler Sub Open()
dim z as ZipMBS
dim f as FolderItem
dim d as date
dim b as BinaryStream
dim info as ZipFileInfoMBS
f=SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.zip")
z=new ZipMBS(f,0)
f=FindFile("ZLib Readme and License.txt")
b=f.OpenAsBinaryFile(false)
d=f.ModificationDate
info=new ZipFileInfoMBS
'info.Day=d.day
'info.Month=d.Month-1
'info.Year=d.Year
'info.Minute=d.Minute
'info.hour=d.hour
'info.Second=d.Second
info.SetDate d
info.ExternalFileAttributes=0
info.InternalFileAttributes=0
info.DosDate=0
z.CreateFile "ZLib Readme and License.txt", info, "extra local1", "extra global1", "comment1", z.MethodDeflated, z.CompressionBestCompression
while not b.EOF
z.Write b.Read(100000)
wend
z.CloseFile
z.Close("global comment")
quit
End EventHandler
Function FindFile(name as string) As FolderItem
// Look for file in parent folders from executable on
dim parent as FolderItem = app.ExecutableFile.Parent
while parent<>Nil
dim file as FolderItem = parent.Child(name)
if file<>Nil and file.Exists then
Return file
end if
parent = parent.Parent
wend
End Function
End Class