ZLIB.DLL: Decompression blues.

[rpk2006]

I have a Multi-line Text Box on my form where a user will
type his message or text. I want to compress this text.
The text may be of length more than 65536 and sometimes
may be of 1 MB.
For checking compression and decompression, I have placed
two command buttons on the form. One is for compression
and the second for decompression.

When I click the "Compress" button, the compression goes
on fine, but when I click the "Decompress" button, the
original text is reduced to half or sometimes less than half. It does not give 100% original data.

Does the "CompressString" function of ZLIB is for small strings? How to compress long text of more than 1 MB in the text box itself?

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Rohit. ---------------------------------
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[reneb]

Your limited to 1 MB of data. That's just the way it is.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

You could try spanning the compression. break the text box into 1 meg spans.

-Rick