Text Compression?

[sprout_68 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

If have a project that saves data as a text file.

Sometimes these files can get to be pretty big.

I was wondering if there is a Text Compression algorithm that anyone knows that has been written into, or could be, into Lingo?

A way to compress a string and then decompress it?


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[hairybobby webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

well I can't directly answer your question. But isn't a zip file the same thing as compression.
I have heard that you can get xtras to both read in and read out zip files. I have absolutely no idea of the name of the particular xtra though.

But I remember reading something about this on [url]www.director-online.com[/url]

sorry I can't be more help



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[sprout_68 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I was looking more for a formula that I could write into Lingo that can take a string and shrink down the number of characters.

I might have to look to the Zip xtras out there.

thanks,

and how did that movie script I posted work for you? Did it help find the behaviors that people had attached?

sprout

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>>> import this
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[hairybobby webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks again for that script sprout,

I was just really asking because i didn't know how to do it?

I wanted to know that when i was making this behavior

[url]http://www.geocities.com/hairybobby2000/pageturn.html[/url]

its a quad script that works like a book.

I needed to know which sprites had the behavior attached but I just totally fiddled around it.
The fiddle works nicely and I suppose i should have changed it to yours but I haven't got round to it.

Basically when the behavior starts i set the locz to the spritenum+ 22700. And so to detect which other sprites have the script attached you just test the locz for between 22700 and 22850
Its not perfect because someone might set the locz to 22700 for some other reason but it works nicely. and its only about one or two lines


I just about think i can get away with it though it is a total fiddle!!!!

What do you think should I do it the right way - ie yours!!






HAIRYBOBBY - why didn't I choose a really cool name like the vulcanpimp

[url]http://www.geocities.com/hairybobby2000[/url]

see my photos of the sunrise eclipse

[url]http://www.geocities.com/hairybobby2000/ecllipse.html[/url]

[sprout_68 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

if yours works then leave it as is!

If you can find a use for mine, go right ahead!! at your own risk..




>>> ## Why Python is a model for all
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters