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. […]
Question: I am using the following calls in Visual FoxPro with Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject (9.5.0.80) and the resulting JSON is writing only {} oChilkatJson=Createobject(‘Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject’) oChilkatJson.LoadFile(“pathToLargeJSONFile”) oChilkatJson.EmitCompact=1 =STRTOFILE(oChilkatJson.Emit(),pathToOutputFile) Original Size of JSON: 259 MB (271,982,395 bytes) New JSON outputs as: {} I could use the https://www.example-code.com/foxpro/create_complex_json.asp to read and write each JSON property/object to memory and perform the one EMIT() a the end, […]
Question: I am user of your component and I have problem with signing XML files. I got (invalid) ds:Signature with same not replaced text “TO BE GENERATED BY CHILKAT” in tree node (SigningCertificate|xades:Cert[1] and SigningCertificate|xades:Cert[2]) The SigningCertificate|xades:Cert[0] is valid. … CkXml object1; object1.put_Tag(“xades:QualifyingProperties”); object1.AddAttribute(“xmlns:xades”,”http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#”); object1.AddAttribute(“xmlns:xades141″,”http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.4.1#”); object1.AddAttribute(“Target”,”#xmldsig-0d264d45-0a6a-4431-8e74-35463a71756c”); object1.UpdateAttrAt(“xades:SignedProperties”,true,”Id”,”xmldsig-0d264d45-0a6a-4431-8e74-35463a71756c-signedprops”); object1.UpdateChildContent(“xades:SignedProperties|xades:SignedSignatureProperties|xades:SigningTime”,”TO BE GENERATED BY CHILKAT”); object1.UpdateAttrAt(“xades:SignedProperties|xades:SignedSignatureProperties|xades:SigningCertificate|xades:Cert|xades:CertDigest|ds:DigestMethod”,true,”Algorithm”,”http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1″); object1.UpdateChildContent(“xades:SignedProperties|xades:SignedSignatureProperties|xades:SigningCertificate|xades:Cert|xades:CertDigest|ds:DigestValue”,”TO BE […]
The Chilkat Xmp class provides the abililty to insert/update/remove/extract XMP metadata from JPEG and TIFF image files. In addition, the XMP API provides helper methods to make it easier to construct XML according to XMP specifications. These methods are usually sufficient, but may lack flexibility to create more complex XMP metadata. An alternative approach is […]
Problem: I was using Chilkat to sign xml messages, very similar to one of your examples: https://www.example-code.com/dotnet-core/fatturapa_cades_bes.asp The code was deployed as an Azure V2 function written in .Net Core 2.2 It worked without problems for months, but then after one deploy last week it started crashing on the line: new Chilkat.Global().UnlockBundle(ChilkatKey); It works locally, […]
Question: We have a desktop application(client) that can communicate to many devices(servers) at the same time. A different thread pool is used for each device communication, so they do not block each other or the main thread. Because of the issue earlier, I am using the same http object for all communications. Most of the […]
Question: I updated from an older version of Chilkat to the latest version, and the following CkFtp2 (C++) methods no longer exist: GetLastAccessDt and GetLastAccessDtByName. What happened to them? Answer: These methods were deprecated a while ago, and were finally removed. I’ll explain. (The methods still exist in the ActiveX because it’s not possible to […]
Question: One of my suppliers has provided a certified x509 certificate p12, in order to connect to his WS Soap. Developing in the Visual FoxPro environment, I ask you if you have libraries with examples that can be used for this purpose. Answer: I’m assuming the .p12 is to be used as the client certificate […]
I often get this question: “I’m calling the method XYZ and the UI freezes until the method returns.”. For example: “I’m trying to upload a file in FTP. I’m trying the examples of the site but the screen remains locked until the end of the upload. It’s very important that while I’m uploading a […]
Question: I am trying to use the Node.js library with node installed through home-brew, but I get this error when executing an example script: Error: The module ‘/Users/x/node_modules/@chilkat/ck-node11-macosx/chilkat.node’ was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 67. This version of Node.js requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 72. Please try re-compiling or re-installing the module (for instance, using […]
Question: We use your system to submit to VAT returns to HMRC using Making Tax Digital. Does this TLS stuff mean anything to you? The only reference I can see to it in the code is setting a TLS Boolean to true, which doesn’t specify a version? (This is a portion of the notice from […]
