ZipView
Window
The ZipView Window is used to view and manipulate the files of a ZIP archive file or a self-extracting executable zip file. The archive file may be selected and read into the window with a LMB double click, the menus or the Alt+V key combination.
ZipView
Window
The window is sizable and movable. Size and position data are saved on closing the window. It has most of the window characteristics of the file windows, including popup function and options menus with the same hot zones for activation. It inherits the file window background color and detail view titles configuration. Only the text and detail views are available.
ZipView
Context Menu
The files may be sorted by the same options except the date sort is not available. RMB click in the data area at the bottom of the window for the window options menu.
ZipView
Window Options Menu
The program must have access to Info-ZIP's UNZIP.EXE to read the file into the window and access to ZIP.EXE to perform some of the window functions. The path to these files must exist in the External Programs Zip entry field, Page 3_1, Settings Notebook. The program automatically fills this field if the files are found in the environment path.
If the temporary directory \WORKDIR does not exist as a subdirectory to the directory in which FILESTAR.EXE is installed, it is created along with the ZipView Window. While no harm is done if you later delete this directory, you just as well leave it alone so it does not have to be recreated. The program deletes all files and subdirectories in \WORKDIR either when the window is closed or the program is terminated.
When viewing multiple files with the ZipView window, you do not need to close it between files. When another ZIP file is selected, the window is emptied before reading the new file. You may also LMB double click on a zip file within the zip file in the window and that file will be read into the window.
Some ZipView functions do not show the background zip or unzip process window. If a background zip or unzip process stops with a user query (such as a password prompt), the window is automatically brought to the foreground and made visible after 4 seconds. Previous versions did not do this and the user often thought the zip/unzip process had stalled the system.
The detail view fields displayed are:
Window Functions
The window functions activated from either the window pushbuttons or popup menu are:
- Pushing the WorkDir pushbutton dumps the entire zip file into the work
directory \WORKDIR. The ZipView Window is closed and the work directory
is read into the other file window, ready for you to use any file window
function. These files will be deleted either upon using the ZipView Window
again or at program termination, so treat them as temporary. There is an
exception; You may LMB double click an a zip
file in the work directory, display it in a ZipView Window and then dump
this file into the work directory without the previous files in the work
directory being deleted. In other words, the files in the work directory
are not deleted if the zip file in the window came from the work directory.
Launches the browse or image viewer program on the cursored file. A LMB
double click accomplishes the same thing. Views all file extensions supported
in a file window.
Initiates a dialog process to add files to the archive file in the window.
This pushbutton is labeled Create if the ZipView Window is launched
without a cursored zip file in the active file window. Pushing Create
will start a dialog process to create a zip file and add selected files
to it.
Initiates a dialog process to extract selected files from the archive file
in the window to the directory of choice.
Starts the editor program on the cursored file. The file is extracted to
the work directory where it is edited. When the editor is closed the file
is re-zipped back into the archive file in the window. Edits ASCII and ICO,
BMP and PTR files.
Deletes the selected files in the ZipView Window from the archive file.
This is it.