[Kde-games-devel] Create file archives with Qt/kdelibs

[Andreas Beckermann]

On Thursday 15 May 2008, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 23:27:29 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > If we're talking about code, then there's KArchive and its subclasses in
> > kdelibs. You can read and write from/to tar.bz2, tar.gz, .zip and even
> > .ar in case you need that. Its all in kdelibs/kio, api docs are here:
> > http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kio/html/classKArchive.html
>
> Thank you for the hint. I already scanned the apidocs but seem to have
> missed it.
>
> Stefan

Hi
I second that recommendation of KArchive for this kind of thing.
We've been using KTar in Boson for our file format(s) for ages, see
http://boson.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/boson/branches/qt4/code/boson/gameengine/bofile.h?revision=8016&view=markup
for sample use. Note however that the API changed slightly in KDE4 and this is 
only a quick port.

There's a huge advantage that comes with using .tar.gz files: not only can you 
easily write code to read them, but you also can untar them manually whenever 
you need to, which comes in very handy occasionally.

CU
Andi