Any way to create/modify zip files?

Here's a Yahoo (formerly Konfabulator) widget that does zipping http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=37655. It uses a freeware commandline zip utility (7zip?) to do the actual work by calling the executable.

Maybe it's of some use?

XZip is a free "component" dll that provides easy basic zip access from script. I used it to extract and create bootskin archives with Bootskin Buddy.

There are examples on how to use XZip at the download site. But here's a couple handy snippets for registering and unregistering the dll silently from your widget or gadget:

Include the XZip.dll as a Custom File from Summary panel so it will be packaged and present in the Object.Directory.

To register in your Object_OnScriptEnter:

'Register The Zip-Archive extraction/Compression DLL
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.shell")
strDLLPath = Chr(34) & Object.Directory & "XZip.dll" & Chr(34)
xyz = objShell.Run("regsvr32 -s " & strDLLPath, 0, False)
Set objShell = Nothing


It is important to note the space after the "-s".

To unregister the dll (if you don't think any other apps are using it!):

'Un-Register The Zip-Archive extraction/Compression DLL
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.shell")
strDLLPath = Chr(34) & Object.Directory & "XZip.dll" & Chr(34)
xyz = objShell.Run("regsvr32 -u -s " & strDLLPath, 0, False)
Set objShell = Nothing



Hope that's helpful!
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It was. Thank you.

Hope that's helpful!

Very cool!