[osflash] AS3 File Zip & Unzip utility

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:55 PM, jim wrote:

> Does anyone know if it would be possible to zip & unzip files  
> directly in
> Actionscript 3? I am looking for a way to reduce download sizes of  
> assets
> loaded at runtime.
>
> I have had a quick hunt on sourceforge & codeprojct but before I  
> dig into it
> any further I was hoping someone else might have had a similar idea  
> and know
> of an open source zipping utility that I could look at porting the  
> code
> from.

What kind of assets are you talking about? Compression isn't going to  
do anything for you with SWF, PNG, JPEG, MP3, GIF, FLV. Text is all  
you're really going to be able to compress. Even that may already be  
compressed by HTTP if the server and the browser are configured and  
able to do so.

If you really do have a use case for text compression, search for  
zlib as3.

-bob