Xojo Plugin

Transition from Zip.AppendNew to Zip.AddEmpty

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated AppendNew method calls with AddEmpty. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim zip As New Chilkat.Zip

// ...
// ...
Dim pathInZip As String
pathInZip = "example.dat"

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The AppendNew method is deprecated:

Dim entryObj As Chilkat.ZipEntry
entryObj = zip.AppendNew(pathInZip)
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(zip.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// ...
// ...

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Do the equivalent using AddEmpty.

// Indicate the newly appended entry is not a directory entry.
Dim isDir As Boolean
isDir = False

success = zip.AddEmpty(isDir,pathInZip)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(zip.LastErrorText)
    Return
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 Chilkat.ZipEntry
Dim index As Int32
index = zip.NumEntries - 1
success = zip.EntryAt(index,ze)