[osflash] AS3 File Zip & Unzip utility

[vineet_sc]

meychi's got an actionscript 2.0 LZX implementation you can use:

http://www.meychi.com/archive/000031.php


----- Original Message ----
From: jim <jim at eltanno.com>
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List <osflash at osflash.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2006 6:57:10 PM
Subject: Re: [osflash] AS3 File Zip & Unzip utility

Thanks,

I was looking at using it mainly on xml files that are getting a bit big, so
the http compression might be the way to go. 

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On
Behalf Of Bob Ippolito
Sent: 03 August 2006 23:09
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: Re: [osflash] AS3 File Zip & Unzip utility


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


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