Thank you very very much for opening my eyes. Generally, I knew about that library but in this moment I forgot about it. I tried it today and it worked like magic.
The files are even 1-2% smaller than regular ZIP :) Now I have the files not only concatenated, but also compacted. And this with only few lines of code. Thank you again. Gabriel Chris Rutkowski wrote: > 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
