Zip function on win 7

[Mike Matthews]

Quite sure. 34c tomorrow and for the rest of August. Yes, quite sure. 

Mike



Mike Matthews, Managing Director, Lineal Software Solutions Ltd

Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner, SQLWorks Business Partner
phone: 01271 850550 | web: lineal.co.uk | email: mike at lineal.co.uk

On 17 Aug 2012, at 00:01, Wizardcompserv at aol.com wrote:

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> In a message dated 16/08/2012 19:39:23 GMT Daylight Time,  
> omnis at lineal.co.uk writes:
> 
> Tomorrow  is fine. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
> Mike Matthews, Managing Director,  Lineal Software Solutions Ltd
> 
> Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner,  SQLWorks Business Partner
> phone: 01271 850550 | web: lineal.co.uk | email:  mike at lineal.co.uk
> 
> On 16 Aug 2012, at 20:50, "Pedro Santos"  <pedro.santos at macwin.pt> wrote:
> 
>> I have to check, but  theoretically the code execution should halt until
>> the zipping process  is finished.
>> If not, you can create a while loop to check if the file  is created
>> recording its size on each loop and wait until it doesn't  change.
>> 
>> I can't look at the code right now, but I can check  it for you tomorrow
>> if you want.
>> 
>> -----Mensagem  original-----
>> De: Mike Matthews [mailto:omnis at lineal.co.uk] 
>> Enviada: quinta-feira, 16 de Agosto de 2012 18:39
>> Para: OmnisDev List  - English
>> Assunto: Re: Zip function on win 7
>> 
>> Pedro,  
>> 
>> How do you know the zipping is finished?  If you have a  large file to
>> do, it could take over a minute to zip. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike  Matthews, Managing Director, Lineal Software Solutions Ltd
>> 
>> Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner, SQLWorks Business Partner
>> phone:  01271 850550 | web: lineal.co.uk | email: mike at lineal.co.uk
>> 
>> On 16 Aug 2012, at 20:17, "Pedro Santos" <pedro.santos at macwin.pt>  wrote:
>> 
>>> I was in a meeting. Sorry for the  delay.
>>> 
>>> I changed the command since the example I had  was to compress a file 
>>> and not a folder, but it has both a source  and target folder
>> parameters.
>>> If you call the executable  with a "/?" or a "/h" it should list all 
>>> the parameters it  accepts.
>>> 
>>> I'm glad it helped.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Pedro
>>> 
>>> -----Mensagem  original-----
>>> De: Will Adkin  [mailto:will.adkin at lineal.co.uk]
>>> Enviada: quinta-feira, 16 de  Agosto de 2012 15:56
>>> Para: OmnisDev List - English
>>> Assunto: Re: Zip function on win 7
>>> 
>>> Got it - found a  great examples site at 
>>> /www.dotnetperls.com/7-zip-examples
>>> 
>>> Thanks  again!
>>> 
>>> Will Adkin, Software Development Manager,  Lineal Software Solutions 
>>> Ltd Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner,  SQLWorks Business Partner 
>>> office
>>> phone: 01271 850550  | web: lineal.co.uk | email: will at lineal.co.uk
>>> 
>>> On 16  Aug 2012, at 15:13, Will Adkin <will.adkin at lineal.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Pedro - this is a great  help
>>>> 
>>>> the only thing is it always seems to zip  the Omnis dev folder and put
>> 
>>>> it in the  lvcFolder
>>>> 
>>>> so if lvcFolder is the destination  folder where do you specify the
>>> source folder?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Will Adkin, Software Development Manager,  Lineal Software Solutions 
>>>> Ltd Apple Reseller, Microsoft  Partner, SQLWorks Business Partner 
>>>> office phone: 01271 850550  | web: lineal.co.uk | email:
>>>> will at lineal.co.uk
>>>> 
>>>> On 16 Aug 2012, at 14:14, Pedro Santos  <pedro.santos at macwin.pt>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Will.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We use  7zip with the command line:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Start  program minimized {[con(lvc7zipfolder,'\7z.exe a -sfx7z.sfx  
>>>>> -t7z ',lvcFolder,' -m0=BCJ -m1=LZMA:d=25 -mx=9 -ms  -mmt')]}
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hth,
>>>>> Pedro
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Mensagem  original-----
>>>>> De: Will Adkin  [mailto:will.adkin at lineal.co.uk]
>>>>> Enviada: quinta-feira, 16  de Agosto de 2012 13:15
>>>>> Para:  omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com
>>>>> Assunto: Zip function on  win 7
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know of a way to zip a folder and its  contents on a 
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> 7 machine (64  bit) using Omnis 5.2.1? We have this code to do it on 
>>>>> a
>>>>> mac:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ;   Prepare the applescript.
>>>>> Begin text  block
>>>>> Text: tell application "Finder" (Carriage  return)
>>>>> Text: do shell script "cd [ParentDirPosixPath] ;  zip -r
>>> '[ZipFileName]'
>>>>> '[SourceName]'"  (Carriage return)
>>>>> Text: end tell (Carriage  return)
>>>>> End text block
>>>>> Get text block  Script
>>>>> 
>>>>> ;  Execute the  applescript.
>>>>> Do $runapplescript(Script,Result) Returns  ErrCode
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've been spending all  morning trying to figure out the world of 
>>>>> dll's and  SHELL32, but so far no joy. No luck with Java either...
>>>>> 
>>>>> If any one else does this in their app i'd love some  pointers...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks in  advance,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Will  Adkin
>>>>> Lineal
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Will Adkin, Software Development Manager, Lineal Software  Solutions 
>>>>> Ltd Apple Reseller, Microsoft Partner, SQLWorks  Business Partner 
>>>>> office
>>>>> phone: 01271  850550 | web: lineal.co.uk | email: will at lineal.co.uk
>>>>> 
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