Delphi ActiveX

Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

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How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns. Delphi ActiveX

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Chilkat_TLB;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Integer;
zip: TChilkatZip;
sa: TCkStringArray;
recurse: Integer;

begin
success := 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

zip := TChilkatZip.Create(Self);

success := zip.NewZip('test.zip');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(zip.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

// Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
// to be excluded:
sa := TCkStringArray.Create(Self);
success := sa.Append('*.bak');
success := sa.Append('*.tmp');

// Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
zip.SetExclusions(sa.ControlInterface);

// Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
// not read the file contents or append them to the zip
// object in memory.  It simply appends references
// to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
// or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
// and encrypted.
recurse := 1;
success := zip.AppendFiles('/temp/a/*',recurse);

success := zip.WriteZipAndClose();
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(zip.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('Zip Created!');
end;