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