Reputation: 2281

Third party component for zip file(s)/folder(s)

Someone knows a third party component that allows to visually manage zip file(s) / folder(s)? For example as is in WinZip application (es: add, delete new file in zipfile etc)?

Upvotes: 1

Answers (5)

Zoë Peterson

Reputation: 13322

Sample application showing TAbTreeView and TAbListView Abbrevia 5.0 has a new set of components, TAbListView and TAbTreeView that work together to give a view very similar to WinZip's or Explorer. You can make them reference each other and one of the archiver components (e.g., TAbZipKit) and they'll automatically pull out the folder structure to show in the treeview and show the files in the selected folder in the listview. The listview also supports the flat "all files" view without the treeview.

The screenshot above is from the ComCtrlsDemo project in the Delphi examples directory, and the only code in it is to support extracting the content to the memo, and to change the view styles.

They are read-only though. To add files you work with the archive component directly (TAbZipKit.AddFiles()), and if you wanted to support drag & drop into/out of Explorer you would need to do that yourself. Anders Melander's Drag and Drop Component Suite would be a good start for that.

Upvotes: 7