On Wednesday 05 February 2014 11:18:21 Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 02/05/2014 10:50 AM, Sam Bull wrote: > > I want to include some data with my app. It is a zip file about 15MB in > > size, uncompressed the files are about 40MB. So, it would be nice to > > keep it as compressed file. > > > > Can click packages extract a file and save it somewhere appropriate when > > installing to the phone? > > Yes, applications have write access to a number of areas that are app > specific and based on XDG. 'Runtime environment' under the developer > docs[1] has the information you need for where to put things.
I think what he meant is to have hooks in the click package to call the unzip command upon installation. But actually this begs the question: Why do you want to package up your files into a .zip? click packages compress their data automatically. So while the files would be unpackaged in the source repository, the actual resulting click package should be smaller without you compressing them yourself. > > > If not, is there an easy way to access the contents of a compressed file > > in QML/Javascript? > > This actually isn't 'if not'-- while you have the write access, pure QML > applications don't have filesystem access without the help of a (C++) > extension, and I don't think there is an extension for > uncompressing/compressing files, so you might have to write one for your > app. Perhaps someone from the SDK team can comment on any plans or existing > extensions for this sort of thing. > > [1]http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/apps/security-policy-for-click-packag > es/ If you really want to uncompress the file yourself, it should be quite easy to do on your own by wrapping this into a minimalistic c++ plugin: http://www.qtforum.org/article/35737/zip-and-unzip.html -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
