Re: [paragui-users] Reading in theme/XML layouts from memory

[Andrew Ford]

Physfs, the paragui file layer, already includes
zip-file support.  All you have to do is add your
zip-file to the searched archives and it will be
treated as part of the virtual file-system.

Andrew.

--- Robby Dermody <address@hidden> wrote:
> With the project I'm working on, I'm keeping (or
> would like to keep) the
> paraGUI theme and XML layout files in a zip file
> with the rest of the
> application resource files (to avoid 1000 different
> files being all over the
> place). However, it seems from what I've seen of the
> API, I can only read
> these files in from disk, not by giving a memory
> address. With the zip
> library I use, entries from the archive are read
> into memory. Thus, I would
> have to read the files into memory, then write the
> blocks to a temp file to
> be read back into memory by the appropiate ParaGUI
> file....it's doable, but
> not the optimal solution by far.
> 
> Any ideas from someone that knows the ParaGUI
> internals better than I?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
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