ASZip lets you generate ZIP files from ActionScript 3.

Here comes ASZip to generate Zip files from scratch with some files and folders into it.

This first version is using the native gzip (Deflate) compression from the flash.utils.Bytearray.compress() method, more compression algorithms will be added later like PPMD or Bzip2 and more.

To generate a zip file, with a text file and a PNG file, you would do :

// create the Zip file, first param : compression method
var myZip:ASZip = new ASZip (CompressionMethod.GZIP);
// create a flash.display.BitmapData
var myStevie:Stevie = new Stevie (0, 0);
// encode it as a PNG
var bytes:ByteArray = PNGEnc.encode (myStevie);
// create a text stream
var txt:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
// write some text into it
txt.writeUTFBytes("Hello there !!");
// add a pics folder
myZip.addDirectory ("pics/");
// then a text folder
myZip.addDirectory ("text/");
// pass the PNG stream and specify a file name and location
myZip.addFile (bytes, "pics/stevie.png");
// pass the text stream and specify a file name and location
myZip.addFile (txt, "text/story.txt");
// add a comment
myZip.addComment ("A comment !");
// generate final Zip file
var myZipFile:ByteArray = myZip.saveZIP ( Method.LOCAL );