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Polar ZIP Light allows you to seamlessly add zipping functionalities to your applications.
Compare Polar ZIP Component and Polar ZIP Light features
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| Zip actions | ||
| Create a new zip file |  |
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| Delete files in a zip file | |
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| Compress entire directories and their contents or a list of directories | |
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| Compress only files newer than those already in the zip file (Refresh) | |
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| Compress files and add them to a zip file (Update) | |
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| Delete files after zipping them (Move) | |
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| Have specified types of files directly copied into a zip file without compression | |
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| Include a drive volume label in a zip file | |
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| UnZIP Actions | ||
| Decompress files from a zip file | |
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| Specify the directory where files will be decompressed to | |
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| Only decompress files that are newer than the ones already existing on disk (Refresh) | |
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| Converts spaces in filenames to underscores while unzipping | |
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| Multi-disk and multi-file archives | ||
| Reads and writes zip files that span multiple disks | |
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| Creates multi-part zip files directly to a hard drive | |
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| Converts multi-file archives to one single zip file | |
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| Converts an existing zip file to a multi-file or a multi-disk archive | |
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| Events during disk spanning: prompting for disks, prompting to erasing disks and so on. The Polar ZIP Component displays on the screen what you want it to display and enables you to use pre-defined dialogs | |
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| Formats disks before writing on them | |
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| Self-extracting features | ||
| Supported use of unbreakable AES encryption | |
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| Supported use of a password | |
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| Specify Self-extracting file name | |
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| Specify “Read Me” file that will be displayed when running a Self-extraction file | |
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| Specify “Execute After” file that will be executed when running a Self-extraction file | |
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| Specify folder to unzip files to when running a Self-extraction file | |
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| Specify whether the dialogs will be displayed when running a Self-extraction file | |
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| Specify whether existing files will be overwritten during unzipping, while the Self-extraction file is running | |
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| Memory compression | ||
| Memory compression & decompression | |
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| Memory to zip file conversion and vice versa | |
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| General zip information | ||
| Obtain a detailed list of files in a zip file; | |
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| Use wildcards to specify the files to be processed; | |
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| Specify the name and location of a zip file; | |
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| Events provide data such as the file size before compression, the compressed file size and other information as it becomes available; | |
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| You have full control over zip comments | |
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| Tools | ||
| Specify different encryption and decryption passwords for each file if needed | |
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| Tests the integrity, repairs corrupted zip files and reports any inconsistencies found | |
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| Converts existing zip files into self-extracting zip files and vice-versa | |
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| Make the zip file date the same as the newest item | |
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| Converts text LFs to CRLFs and vice-versa | |
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| General process information | ||
| Set the compression level | |
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| Work on temporary copies of zip files for maximum safety. You can specify the location of the temporary zip file | |
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| All operations can be aborted | |
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| Notifies your application whenever a file is being zipped, unzipped, updated, deleted, etc. | |
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| Provides the status of the progress by file and globally with the data shown as percentages, bytes and file counts | |
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| You can easily update your progress bars directly with this information | |
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| Limits file processing based on file dates: does not operate on files modified after/on the date you specify | |
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| Product includes | ||
| ActiveX Component | |
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| DLL (dynamic link library) | |
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| Full source code written in VC++ 6.0 included | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Support through Polar HelpDesk | |
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| Access to Polar Knowledge base | |
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| Price | ||
| 1 developer licence ( click for other prices ) | Free! | $239 (full C++ source code included) |
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