Status of miniz

[peterigzParticipant]

Quick question: Is miniz in a usable state? I’m guessing no as there’s no docs and it looks wip but thought I’d check.

[peterigzParticipant]

Any ETA on miniz? Pretty much all I need now to finish off TimelineFX in monkey2 and add it to the list of modules.

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

What do you need it for exactly?

It’s all ‘there’ in that the whole thing compiles, but the API side is incomplete and even if I complete it it wont be particularly easy to use as it’ll be very C-ish.

If you can give me some pointers re: what to concentrate on ‘mkaing useful’ first etc it’d help.

I do actually use it in the module manager to decompress files, so it already sort of works…

[peterigzParticipant]

I basically need it to load images and an xml file from a zip file. I seem to recall that currently loadimage only takes a string for the filename, whereas in Blitzmax it took an object which could be a stream, ie from a zip, so not sure if that’s possible yet.

And this is the code in Blitzmax that got the xml string from the zip, so something that can replicate this would be great.

Monkey

Local zip:ZipReader = New ZipReader zip.OpenZip(filename) Local xmlstream:TStream = zip.ExtractFile("DATA.XML") If Not xmlstream Throw "Error loading effects file!" Local xmlstring:String xmlstring = xmlstream.ReadString(xmlstream.Size())

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Local zip:ZipReader = New ZipReader zip.OpenZip(filename) Local xmlstream:TStream = zip.ExtractFile("DATA.XML") If Not xmlstream Throw "Error loading effects file!" Local xmlstring:String xmlstring = xmlstream.ReadString(xmlstream.Size())

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

so not sure if that’s possible yet.

No, no yet.

However, there’s already a std.zipfile.ZipFile class (used by module manager) that could be tweaked to perform simple file extraction, eg:

Monkey

Class ZipFile    Method Extract:DataBuffer( file:String )...doesn't exist yet!... Function Open:ZipFile( path:String ) End Local zip:=ZipFile.Open( "Somefile.zip" ) Local str:=zip.Extract( "DATA.XML" ).PeekString( 0 )

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Class ZipFile      Method Extract:DataBuffer( file:String )...doesn't exist yet!...      Function Open:ZipFile( path:String )   End Local zip:=ZipFile.Open( "Somefile.zip" ) Local str:=zip.Extract( "DATA.XML" ).PeekString( 0 )

Would this be enough for now?

[peterigzParticipant]

Ok, I think what I’ll for now is just import the folder (didn’t realise you could do this!), so similar to what I did in Monkey 1. So rather than load the zip you just extract the zip to a folder and #import “folder/” to reference everything that way. Loading it all straight from the zip would be the most ideal solution (without having to extract anything to disk), but not an emergency.

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