Saving to a zip

Catprog · Post by **Catprog** » Sat May 12, 2007 7:37 am

Is there a way to write to a zip file under irrlicht?

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sat May 12, 2007 7:57 am

If you are asking if there is a way to get an IWriteFile for a file in a zip archive, then no. That said, the zlib library is part of Irrlicht though, so you can use that if you care to do so.

Travis

Catprog · Post by **Catprog** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:04 am

Ok then.

swesoulc · Post by **swesoulc** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:59 pm

vitek a question please
zlib should then work as a .zip for irrlicht? meaning I can read zlib with addZipFileArchive
checking around I can't really see that irrlicht has a compressor for it
do I have to add the zlib header and include myself to gain access to a compressor or is the function just buried somewhere?

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sat May 12, 2007 9:25 pm

I don't understand your question. zlib is a library for reading and writing zip files. The Irrlicht file system uses zlib internally to decompress files that are compressed inside a zip file.

As I mentioned in my original post, Irrlicht does not provide a way to write zip files. There is no 'compressor' provided for use with Irrlicht.

If you want to use the zlib library, you need to include the zlib.h and write your code to use it. The zlib library is compiled directly into the Irrlicht library, so you will need to either add your code to the Irrlicht.dll or to write your new code using the external zlib.

Travis

swesoulc · Post by **swesoulc** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:17 am

although you didn't seem to understand you answered purrrrfectly travis
those short lines answered better then the entire zlib website
thanks mate