Visual Basic 6.0

Transition from Zip.AppendBd to Zip.AddBd

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendBd method calls with AddBd. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim zip As New ChilkatZip

' ...
' ...

Dim pathInZip As String
pathInZip = "example.dat"

Dim bd As New ChilkatBinData
success = bd.LoadFile("c:/someDir/example.dat")

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' The AppendBd method is deprecated:
' AppendBd returns the zip entry object, which is usually not needed.

Dim entryObj As ChilkatZipEntry
Set entryObj = zip.AppendBd(pathInZip,bd)
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print zip.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' ...
' ...

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Do the equivalent using AddBd.

' Instead of returning the zip entry object, we just return success/failure.
success = zip.AddBd(pathInZip,bd)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print zip.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Do the following if you need the zip entry object for what was just appended.
' The newly appended entry is the last one.
Dim ze As New ChilkatZipEntry
Dim index As Long
index = zip.NumEntries - 1
success = zip.EntryAt(index,ze)