Zip actions

• Create a new zip file;
• Delete files in a zip file;
• Compress entire directories and their contents or a list of directories;

UnZIP Actions

• Decompress files from a zip file;
• Specify the directory where files will be decompressed to;

General zip information

• Use wildcards to specify the files to be processed;
• Specify the name and location of a zip file;
• Events provide data such as the file size before compression, the compressed file size and other information as it becomes available;
• You have full control over zip comments;

General process information

• Set the compression level;
• Work on temporary copies of zip files for maximum safety. You can specify the location of the temporary zip file;
• All operations can be aborted;
• Notifies your application whenever a file is being zipped, unzipped, updated, deleted, etc.;
• Provides the status of the progress by file and globally with the data shown as percentages, bytes and file counts;
• You can easily update your progress bars directly with this information;
• Limits file processing based on file dates: does not operate on files modified after/on the date you specify;

List of Methods, Properties and Events

All Polar ZIP features are accessible through simple properties, methods and events, just like in the components you are used to.

Methods

• Add
• Extract
• Delete
• List

Properties

• AllowErrorReporting
• CompressionLevel
• ExtractDir
• FilesToProcess
• FilesToExclude
• Overwrite
• Password
• RecurseSubdirs
• ZipFileName

Events

• Error
• ProcessStarted
• ProcessEnded
• FileStatus
• FileInfo

Compatibility

Polar ZIP is compatible with a wide range of development languages and platforms.