[Gambas-user] Gambas & Zip

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 09:47, Laurent Godard wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've an idea of gambas development (perharps will tend to a component)
> but a prerequist would be zip capabilities of Gambas
> Is it possible to create zip archive within Gambas (means natively) ?
>
> The idea is to create OpenOffice.org documents (wich only are xml zipped
> files). Then it should be possible to have a set of properties and
> methods that let user create OOo documents without OpenOffice.org installed
>

Daniel Campos made a component to zip and bzip files, but it is not yet 
included in the main sources.

> An other branch of development would be to create an Uno bridge that let
> a Gambas program to access remotly an OpenOffice.org instance and use
> its API (eg : possible in VB through com).
>
> all of this would then enable office document capabilities to Gambas
> What is you opinion ?

I don't know how to do that, but it will be a GREAT idea.

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Laurent

You should talk about that on the development mailing-list.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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