You can’t directly get a string representation of a ByteArray. (Well, you can try, but chances are some of the characters will be outside the normal character range.) One common way of string-encoding binary data is to convert the ByteArray to a Base64-encoded string. You would then need to decode it to binary again on your server.

Flex SDK includes a Base64Encoder class that will do the Base64 encoding for you. You just pass the ByteArray to your Base64Encoder and then call toString() to get the Base64 string.

It isn’t working at the moment, because I don’t seem to be able to get a String representation of the compressed ByteArray. For some reason, the JS fires off an error as soon as I pass the byteArray string to it “unterminated string element” or some such.

Any ideas how I can make this work for my purposes?

ie:
encoder.compressToFile(source, destination, limitPerFile);

Can I do this?

Any idea?

data.compress(…) -> data.inflate();
data.uncompress(…) -> data.deflate();

Gregor

I am trying to compress the files in flex app using flash player 10 but it is not working in fp10 give me exact solution how to compress files in flex web application development not in the air
i neede so how to do pls help me the ways
bye

Unfortunately, the compression and decompression run synchronously in Flash Player/AIR, so there’s no way to get progress notifications (or even run any other code) while they’re running.

Wow! I think because we need high-level compression by function like WinRar, 7z or kgb compressing functions. How do i know about currect encoder by rar, 7z or kgb compressed files?
Where do i find encodes from internet?

I have problem of adobe air while my sample file will compressing onto compressed file. But adobe air application was killed by debug while compression process lose that long time.. :(

I need processbar on panel like WinRar with process panel while compressor will to be final created compressed files?

Thank you! Ragards, Joe Corne-Reeve

Thanks for the great piece of code - I’ve taken your new version and used it with Anirudh’s code (with some minor modification) to make a drop in replacement for HTTPService which will handle both gzip’d and non gzip’d content.

http://www.learnosity.com/techblog/index.cfm/2009/3/19/More-of-AIR-Gzip-compression

Great work.
Thanks,
Mark