captainmidnight
12-21-2008, 03:24 PM
I am using the latest stable release, jzip 1.3 (and I do not see any notes for 1.4 beta about it fixing the issue below).
If I try to zip a directory, and inside that directory are files that are open by another application (in my case, TextPad, which I have configured to maintain a write lock over any files that it has open), then jzip bombs with a dialog box that says:
jZip can not open the file XXX. The file is already opened by another application. Please close that application.
Thats not the way jZip ought to behave: it should behave like what winzip does, which is pop up a dialog warning that the version of file that it sees may not be the latest version, do you want to proceed or not.
Forcing me to quit jZip, and then shutdown all the applications which are using the target directory, is ultra annoying.
I assume that the fix would be fairly trivial: just modify the dialog box to be like winzip's, and proceed with the operation if the user authorizes it.
If I try to zip a directory, and inside that directory are files that are open by another application (in my case, TextPad, which I have configured to maintain a write lock over any files that it has open), then jzip bombs with a dialog box that says:
jZip can not open the file XXX. The file is already opened by another application. Please close that application.
Thats not the way jZip ought to behave: it should behave like what winzip does, which is pop up a dialog warning that the version of file that it sees may not be the latest version, do you want to proceed or not.
Forcing me to quit jZip, and then shutdown all the applications which are using the target directory, is ultra annoying.
I assume that the fix would be fairly trivial: just modify the dialog box to be like winzip's, and proceed with the operation if the user authorizes it.