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On Windows, please read this file using WordPad to format lines properly.
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This directory contains a short example on how to use the Win32 UnZip DLL
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with Visual Basic. The example code consists of a simple dialog form and
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a standard module containing the interface code to call unzip32.dll.
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The code assumes that the unzip32.dll binary is available somewhere on the
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execution path. The easiest way to satisfy this rule is to keep a copy of
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unzip32.dll in the directory where the VB executable is stored, but if
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it's in the command path it should be found.
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NOTE: Whenever a VB program is run from the VB6 IDE, the "path of the VB
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executable" is the path where the IDE program file "VB6.EXE" is stored,
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NOT the storage directory of the VB project file (= result of the App.Path
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property accessed from within the VB program).
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The example code has been edited last with Visual Basic 6, but should be
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compatible with VB 5. To maintain compatibility with VB5 after having modified
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the example project in VB6, the project file has to be edited using a standard
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text editor (e.g.: Notepad), to remove the line specifying the "Retained"
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property. This property line is not recognized by VB 5 and would prevent
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correct loading of the project in VB 5.
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This VB example makes use of the "Windows Common Dialogs" ActiveX control
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comdlg32.ocx, supplied with Visual Basic. Unfortunately, there are different
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revisions of this control available which are not binary compatible. In order
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to maintain compatibility of the source code with all available versions of
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comdlg32.ocx, the source files may have to be edited manually after the
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program has been saved from the VB environment on a system containing the
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latest release of comdlg32.ocx:
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Both vbunzip.frm and vbunzip.vbp should contain a reference line for the
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common dialog ocx reading like:
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Object = "{F9043C88-F6F2-101A-A3C9-08002B2F49FB}#1.1#0"; "COMDLG32.OCX"
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^^^
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The important section of this line is the revision number "1.1" (marked by
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the "^^^" signs). On a system with a more recent version of comdlg32.ocx
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installed, this version number is updated to "1.2" (or higher) by VB
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automatically. This number has to be changed back to "1.1" manually,
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otherwise the example code can no longer be used on systems with old versions
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of comdlg32.ocx.
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When fetching the VB example code from the UnZip source distribution, one
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has to make sure that the files are stored in the correct "DOS/Windows-native"
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text format with "CR-LF" line endings. Visual Basic does not accept Unix style
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text format (LF line terminators) for Form class modules (*.frm) and the
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project file (*.vbp). You may use unzip's -a option to convert the project
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on extraction. If this is a full source distribution, see the Where file for
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where to download the compiled unzip DLL for a specific platform which includes
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this example project in native format for that platform.
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For more information, see the comments within the VB source.
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