There was a quiet additon to the popforge repository. It is our own file format to put your library in a single file. Basically it is just like a zip file. The format is built buy a header, item headers and items. This way it is very easy to navigate through the file and also allows easy streaming access.
At the end it is just a container format that is simple to use. There is a prototype AIR GUI to create the files and then you need one line to transform the file into a simple furnace library which gives you access to all your files again.
I appended the file specifications to the FurnaceFormat.as file for now. Any suggestions are welcome. Checksums are one thing we definitly want to include in the next version.
nice stuff! I’ve created a similar compressed format for the io.file package of the hexagon framework. It also generates a header and then sticks files to it. I mainly made it for games to store game assets in compressed external files. The format can also contain mixed compressed and uncompressed files, as it wouldn’t make much sense to compress already compressed images. Your format however is more close to an archive file which I like.
Hi Joa,
I’m currently playing around with the popforge Library including the furnace format. Wonderfull stuff. You mention a prototype AIR GUI to create furnace libraries in your post. Is there somewhere I can download it?
Hey,
I think I lost that one but it is pretty simple to do that in 5min I think. Just select files and add them to the format and then write it to a file.