Last week, while developing an actionscript application, we had the need to read files stored inside a zip file. Our first approach was to use Zinc to deflate the zip file into a temporary directory.

Because some problems arouse with ZINC I took sometime to read about this AS3 Zip Library As it turns out it does a great job and reading and building zip files and it's really easy to use. Make sure you download and install the Library.

After playing around with this Library for a while I wanted to display some images I had inside the zip file. The issue was how to convert a ByteArry into a BitmapData. It took me a while to figure it out , but as it turns out it's really easy.

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