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[Thales]

Hello,

I thought many here must have grappled with the same problem.

I have lots of texture files and model files that need to be loaded into my OpenGL application during run time. It's a bit of a mess to have these files in a directory.

Is there an archiver for data that can be loaded from during run time? Iows, can I load these textures and model files into the archiver and then extract them from the archive when the program needs them?

Thanks for any help!

[bladder]

http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/

[SmokingRope]

There is a three part tutorial on www.flipcode.com called Programming a Virtual Filesystem

[monjardin]

Is there anything comparable to Microsoft's Structured Storage API for Linux?
Using zlib to build a portable read-only VFS seems straight-forward (if not tedious), but what about writing files back to the archive?

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

Why would you want to do that? During development you can first check the filesystem for a file and then ask the zip-file. When you're done with editing, just compress the files together. This also has benefits in versioning.

Also, archive-packers have been able to delete and update files for ages. It's not that difficult to implement if your decompression code is aware of splitted files.