Zip a Directory Tree

Demonstrates how to zip an entire directory tree into a .zip archive.

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LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnRecurse

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip2')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loZip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    QUIT
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("test.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    QUIT
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
    QUIT
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loZip.WriteZipAndClose()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loZip.LastErrorText
    QUIT
ENDIF

=MESSAGEBOX("Zip Created!")