Simple question

[Matt]

Would it be possible to make VB load an image from a password protected zip file? I know this is possible in some languages, because one very good mmo I used to play did this.

[Dragoons Master]

I'm not sure if it is w/ winzip it selfs, but I THINK it is, just never tried to make it happens. That's evacly what Verrigan's bmp tutorial does. Almost that. It just does not use winzip it selfs, but is the same logic...

[Obsidian]

yeah verrigan's image system unencrypts and loads the image into memory for use. It has good encryption, it's great for graphics. if that's what you're trying to do, if you let me know i can help you out with it

[Matt]

I don't want to use that method. I like this method, in my opinion, it's safer. If you use a password that no program can come up with, then you're fine. I just like this method, which is why I was wanting to figure out how to do it.

If anyone wants to help figure it out, that would be fine, but I don't want to use Ver's encryption method, cause anyone can get his code and create a program to decrypt the gfx.

[halla]

Im sure its possible.

You would just have to have it open the file then enter the password and then it gets the bmp from there.

I guess you would open it as any other file but I dont know about the entering the password thing.

[Matt]

I'm not sure on the whole thing either. But I'm going to look into it when I have the time.

[Obsidian]

i don't know if these will help you or not, but you can look through them...

http://www.componentsource.com/features ... index.html

[Matt]

Thanks Obsi, I'll look into it when I get the time to.

[pingu]

You can work with zip files with VB because the method of packing and unpacking isn't copyrighted. Heck, you can make zip files dynamically with PHP. Rar has a nice encryption mathod, but the packing method is copyrighted.