revZipAddItemWithData

Type

command

Summary

Adds an item to a zip archive and puts the specified data into it

Syntax

revZipAddItemWithData <archivePath>, <itemName>, <variableName>

Description

Use the revZipAddItemWithData command to put data from a LiveCode variable into a file in a zip archive. The archive must have first been opened with revZipOpenArchive.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
archivePath		The absolute path to the zip archive to add the file to.
itemName		The unique name of the item to create in the zip archive.
variableName		The name of a variable in your LiveCode program containing data to place into the item in the zip archive. If the revZipAddItemWithData command encounters an error then the result will be set to an error code beginning with "ziperr", otherwise the result will be empty.

Examples

-- Add a text file directly to the zip file, using the UTF-8
-- text encoding
local tContent, tData
put "Hello, world!" into tContent
put textEncode(tContent, "utf-8") into tData
revZipAddItemWithData tArchive, "hello-world.txt", "tData"

Related

command: revZipAddUncompressedItemWithFile, revZipOpenArchive, revZipAddUncompressedItemWithData, revZipAddItemWithFile, revZipReplaceItemWithData

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 2.7.3

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile