The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
This is an example that generally applies to all methods/properties in the Chilkat API’s that return a date/time (for the Ruby programming language) sysTime = Chilkat::SYSTEMTIME.new() # Get the last-mod date/time fileObj.GetLastModifiedTime(sysTime) lastModTime = sysTime.wMonth.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + “/” + sysTime.wDay.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + “/” + sysTime.wYear.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + ” ” […]
Question (solution is below) Today one of my customer’s got the following connect error when running my application. This same application works just fine on my system as well as almost 100 others. It had run correctly on her computer until she installed an upgrade. The connect error is: Port: 21 Host: www.***.com sockError: 10013 […]
Question: We’re rather puzzled by what appears to be capped speeds on uploads, despite no cap being set. Testing uploads, we’re seeing about 350 KB/s via the Ck library to our (local network) FTP server. A FileZilla transfer of the same file to the same server can happily hit up to 7MB/s. I realize Ck […]
Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim crypt As New ChilkatCrypt2 success = crypt.UnlockComponent(“30-day trial”) If (success = 0) Then MsgBox crypt.LastErrorText Exit Sub End If Dim plainText As String plainText = “To be SHA-1 hashed…” crypt.EncodingMode = “base64” ‘ Hash the string and base64-encode in 1-Step Text1.Text = crypt.HashStringENC(plainText) ‘ Now do it in 2-steps. Should produce […]
This C++ example demonstrates string compression using four different compression algorithms: PPMD, Deflate, BZip2, and LZW. void TestCompression(const char *algorithm) { CkCompression comp; comp.put_Algorithm(algorithm); printf (“algorithm: %s\n”,algorithm); CkByteData compressedData; comp.CompressString(“abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc 123 123 abc 123”,compressedData); // Get the compressed data: const unsigned char *pCompressedData = compressedData.getBytes(); […]
When a signed and/or encrypted email is loaded from a file or downloaded from a mail server, it is automatically verified and/or decrypted. The results are stored in various properties of the email object, and the email object is available in its unencrypted/unsigned form. This means that your application can process signed/encrypted emails in the […]
To force a web server to send a fresh copy (not a cached copy) of the requested document, add a “Pragma: non-cache” HTTP header to the request. If sending a HTTP GET request via these methods: QuickGet, QuickGetStr, Download, etc., then add the Pragma header by calling httpObject.SetRequestHeader(“Pragma”,”no-cache”) prior to sending the GET. If the […]
This table shows which objects are contained in which DLLs. If you use an object in the left-hand column of the table, then you need to deploy the corresponding DLL in the right-hand column. AppSettings ChilkatUtil.dll
Question: May I know that which Zip method in your component could give the best compression? We are trying to Zip some JPEG, and perhaps could reduce the size by half or more. Answer: The JPG file format is already a compressed format, so usually very little is gained in trying to compress it — […]
Demonstrates how to use Chilkat.Compression to compress a string to a byte array: Private Sub CompressStringToBytes() Dim compress As New Chilkat.Compression() ‘ Any string argument automatically begins a 30-day trial. Dim success As Boolean success = compress.UnlockComponent(“30-day trial”) If (success <> True) Then MsgBox(“Compression component unlock failed”) Exit Sub End If ‘ Use the “deflate” […]
