A zip-archive based ResourceProvider for CEGUI

[Jamarr]

I had made a request in the The Development of CEGUI 0.7.x thread requesting an archive based resource provider. Well I eventually got around to writing it myself using zlib and minizip (which is included in zlibs distribution).

I've added a ticket to mantis to see if I can get this class incorporated into CEGUI. Until then, the code has been attached to the ticket and should work as a drop-in replacement for the DefaultResourceProvider in both v0.6 and v0.7 releases; though you will need to download and build/include minizip yourself.

[CrazyEddie]

That's for this. I have not looked at the code yet, but all being well, I can't see any reason we would not add this to the code tree

CE.

[CrazyEddie]

Just to update on this, for anyone not following on mantis: The new resource provider is now in SVN on the branches/v0-7 branch as of rev. 2491. Currently the build of the MinizipResourceProvider is disabled by default, and can be enabled via the usual mechanism depending upon your system of choice.

As part of adding this for v0-7 I have added the required parts of minizip into the CEGUI code tree in order to simplify the dependency situation - these only get compiled in when the MinizipResourceProvider is built. People still on v0-6 who want this should grab the code off of the mantis tacker

And, of course, thanks again to Jamarr for writing this and making it available

CE.

[Jamarr]

No problem, glad to see this made it in. This should at least provide an easy option for people who want to use a zip archive to hold their resources without having to write a custom solution.

Now if only there where a tool to generate c++ from the layouts and binary resources that could then be compiled directly into the application. hrm...

[Jamarr]

Hey CE, I noticed that void setLoadLocal(bool load = true); is declared in the header, but is not actually defined in the source file (CEGUIMinizipResourceProvider.cpp). Apparently I forgot to implement this function when I submitted the code. A simple addition to the source-file should suffice:

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void MinizipResourceProvider::setLoadLocal(bool load)
{
    d_pimpl->d_loadLocal = load;
}


[CrazyEddie]

Thanks, I'll fix this in a moment

CE.