Adding a folder to a zip archive

[Trevor DeVore]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Hi Trevor,
> Thanks for the code.  If I'm understanding this correctly, it puts the
> folder contents into the archive as individual files along with an
> indication of which folder they belong in, then recreates the folder
> structure during the decompress process.
>

Correct.


> My need for this is for installation of a folder of resources for a plugin.
>  Currently, the installation process is simply having the user unzip the
> file then put the plugin stack into their plugins folder.  It sounds like I
> would need to come up with an installation stack to unzip and move
> everything in order to make this work.


If this is happening from within the IDE then you can determine what the
plugin folder is and unzip to a subdirectory, no? I forget what the
function is that returns the plugin folder but there is such a thing.

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