by Tom de Lange (5 Submissions)
Category: Complete Applications
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(60 Votes)
A powerful and very quick compression program using the 32bit zlib.dll (V1.1.3) compression library originally written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (variation of LZ77 Lempel-Ziv 1977 algoritm). The application is implemented through an extensive ArielZip class and a Winzip like client interface.
Features
* Powerful and very fast - compresses 6000 kb data files to 1500 kb (25%) in 2.1 seconds! * Multiple disk spanning with automatic sensing of disk capacity * User friendly floppy disk change dialogue showing contents of disk to be overwritten * Single and multiple file extraction * Extracted icons included in archive as bitmaps * 9 compression levels * Add folders and subfolders through recursive scanning of FSO objects * Add files with multiple file selection * Delete files from list and archive * Refresh files * File association of .azp extension with default icon using regobj.dll (included in zip file).
Other Programming Features
- About box referencing application object (revision etc)
- Custom Folder browse control implementing BrowseForFolder (ArielBrowseControl)
- Extensive use of FileSystemObject (requires scripting runtime dll)
- Automatic sensing of floppy disk insertion/removal
- Demonstration of toolbar control
- Small icon extraction using SHGetFileInfo calls in shell32.dll lib
- Extensive usage of CopyMem (Kernel32)
- Access the system temp folder through GetTempPath (kernel32)
- Registering of azp file type and associated default icon through regobj.dll
- Ini file manipulation using GetProfile and SaveProfile functions
Credits and links: see readme.txt file
API Declarations'Requirements (included in zip file)
'Ariel Browse Folder.ocx
'Registry manipulation (regobj.dll)
'Scripting runtime (scrrun.dll)
'Zip File size: 242kb
Download Ariel Zip Compression Utility with Disk Spanning V1.0 (150 KB)
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