Hi, Search "torry.net" for a program called 7Zip. It's been years since I've used it, but it should still be on there! It allows you to create/extract/modify both ZIP files and LZX compressed files.
Freeware too! Regards, Simon J Stuart Grey Cascade Designs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Delphi-Talk Discussion List" <delphi-talk@elists.org> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Data compression in Delphi > Hi Gabriel, > > there used to be the zlib distributed with Delphi - I have used that > once or twice and it worked well. > I have also used the ZIP.EXE command line utility, started with a > command tail using WINEXEC from within > a Delphi program, and that does most of the tricks required. > > Good luck - > > Chris Rutkowski > > > At 08:37 PM 2/2/2007, you wrote: > >Hi. > > > >I want to save a form with all data inserted by user (in multiple boxes > >and grids). > >For this, I have added to all controls a procedure > >SaveToFile/LoadFromFile (like in TStringList.SaveToFile). > >All is working nice with one single exception: I have too many files > >instead of a single one and the user will be confused. > > > >My idea was to compress all those files in a single ZIP/RAR in the fly > >or at least to compact them (like TAR). > > > >I searched on the internet and I have found few compressions VCLs. I > >looked over few of them but I am not so happy. > > > >The priorities are in this order: > > -to work under all Delphi compilers !!! > > -easy to use > > -on the fly compression > > -price > > -source code > > > >Please let me know if you know something close to this. > > > > > > > >Gabriel > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > >http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > Christian Rutkowski > > MBX Kommunikation > August-Laemmle-Weg 11 > D-70374 Stuttgart > Tel +49 711 7199 325 > Fax +49 711 7199 324 > skype: chrisr_rutkowski > > www.microbx.de > www.microbx.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
