RE: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-02-01 Thread Erik Sandbergen
BUT THERE'S A ZIP XTRA ALREADY! Straight from macromedia. sigh. no one listens to me... I did: The Zip Xtra (Mac and Win) that ships with Director is listed as Authoring only, and Enables Director to compress Bitmaps when publishing a DCR. A quick test revealed that you can create a zip file

RE: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-02-01 Thread Erik Sandbergen
Thanks for the tip, I'd only tried the zip method. I am trying however, to add all files at once, but seem to have some trouble with the last parameter, 'any filelist', in both jar and zip. I tried using getNthFileNameInFolder to return a list of files, nothing. I tried with full path and

lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread Jonathyn B. Tellez
Hi Lingo L, A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed form (i.e. zipped) but I can't find an Xtra that will handle the job. Any ideas? Thanks, JB Tellez Lead Multimedia Programmer Scientfic

Re: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
Zip Xtra is installed wih Director. Check the media folder inside of the xtras folder. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: Hi Lingo L, A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed

Re: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 09:53 -0800 01/31/2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed form (i.e. zipped) but I can't find an Xtra that will handle the job. Any ideas? I thought Buddy

Re: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
Yeah, but buddy is for only pc, what of us macheads? On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 09:53 -0800 01/31/2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed

RE: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
BUT THERE'S A ZIP XTRA ALREADY! Straight from macromedia. sigh. no one listens to me... On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 16:34 -0500 01/31/2002, Erik Sandbergen wrote: Yeah, but buddy is for only pc No it's not. I have a perfectly workable version running under 8.5.1 /