Visual FoxPro

Zip a Directory Tree

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Demonstrates how to zip an entire directory tree into a .zip archive. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnRecurse

lnSuccess = 0

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

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip')

lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("test.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Append a directory tree.  The call to 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 
* is called, the referenced files are streamed and compressed
* into the .zip output file.

lnRecurse = 1
lnSuccess = loZip.AppendFiles("c:/temp/a/*",lnRecurse)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loZip
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Zip Created!"

RELEASE loZip