Re: Structured storage
Re: Structured storage
- Subject: Re: Structured storage
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:03:49 -0500
At 12:30 PM +0100 9/24/01, email@hidden wrote:
This either requires me to implement a very specific file structure for
storing all required data, or a virtual file system in the file. On looking
through the MSDN help system I cam across 'Structured Storage' which looks
like the answer. According to the help it is supported on Macintosh, however
I cannot find the help I need for an OSX Cocoa app to take advantage of
this.
What could possibly make you think that something you read about in
Microsoft developer documentation will be available through Apple's
developer tools and SDKs?
If Microsoft structured storage is available for the Macintosh it is
available from Microsoft, not Apple.
If you need the ability to store multiple files in a single file, I'd
look at the Zip/Jar file format. (Java "Jar" files are just Zip
files with a different suffix and a manifest file used by the Java
runtime to determine things like the main class, beans in the file,
etc.) Zip is widely supported and fairly flexible. It has some
stupid limitations and you'll need to do extra work to support
Macintosh metadata in Zip files, but on the whole you'll do a lot
less work (especially if you can take advantage of an open source
library for manipulating the files).
-- Chris
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