Re: File Suggestions?

[Brendan Murphy <bmurphy@truenorthsoftware.com>]

Mark O'Neill wrote:
> Brendan Murphy wrote:
> > I would embed all the images in the XML as you originally
> > suggested. What you need to do is compress the XML stream as a
> > whole just before you save it.
> I had thought of trying to figure out how to compress the
> encoded picture before saving but not the whole stream.
> Interesting.
>
> Does RB have built-in ways of doing this cross platform that you
> know of?
I use the ZCompression class from the the Einhugur e-CryptIt
plugin to do compression on strings. Once you get the compressed
string, you can write it straight to the binary file.

In the past you have stated you want to write everything yourself
and/or not use plugins, but this is one place where using a plugin
makes a lot more sense than trying to do this from scratch.
The ZCompression class is cross platform and pretty fast. I tried
the MBS equivalent, but it failed on me in certain cases. So I
wouldn't use the MBS version.


_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>

Search the archives:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>