zlib.Deflater.Strategy

zlib.Deflater.Strategy

Property declaration

 Dim Strategy As Integer

Remarks

Gets and sets the compression Strategy for the stream. Can be changed at any time. The compression strategy can be one of these constants:

Name	Comment
Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY	The default strategy. Suitable for general purposes.
Z_FILTERED	Emphasize Huffman Encoding over string-matching. Suitable for data containing mostly small values with a uniform distribution.
Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY	Force Huffman Encoding only.
Z_RLE	Use run-length encoding. Suitable for data containing long sequences of identical bytes.
Z_FIXED	Use the fixed Huffman codes defined in RFC1951#3.2.6.