// do decompression: extract the data
private List <canMessage2> doDecompressToList(string source, out long msg_cnt)
{
msg_cnt = 0;
// read the file
ui_set_state_string("Reading...");
byte[] src = File.ReadAllBytes(source);
// get a number of messages
msg_cnt = Compression.CanMessageCompressedMessageCountGet(src);
// decompress
ui_set_state_string("Extracting...");
List <canMessage2> res = Compression.CanMessagesDecompress(src);
return(res);
}