A helpful note from a Chilkat customer: I wanted to update you on the problem for future reference. SKIP is a reserved word in Visual Foxpro, I should have caught it, but didn’t until 2 days of screwing with it. I knew it had to be something simple, because everything of yours worked perfect, fast, without a hitch except when […]
There are a few important things about the LastErrorText: 1) Each Chilkat method call (or property access) clears the LastErrorText and writes new information about what transpired during the method call. This information is available regardless of the success/failure of the method call. Most Chilkat objects include a VerboseLogging property that controls whether more or less information is recorded. Only […]
AES is not exactly synonymous with “Rijndael”. AES is a (restricted) variant of Rijndael. AES has a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits, whereas Rijndael is specified with block and key sizes in any multiple of 32 bits, both with a minimum of 128 and a maximum of 256 bits. […]
There is often confusion about the number of messages in a POP3 inbox (for a given user account). Here are the typical scenarios that cause confusion: If your email client such as Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird seem to show more messages than what Chilkat can see, then make sure you realize which messages are stored locally by Outlook, and which […]
The Chilkat Q&A Forum at chilkatforum.com is now available: Chilkat Q&A Forum
The strings that should be passed to CreateObject for each of the Chilkat ActiveX components are listed in the reference documentation. For example: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xChilkatSFtpRef.html
Question: Does Chilkat support Windows 8 Metro UI? Answer: Yes, any of the existing Chilkat libraries, components, etc. should run with no problems on the Windows 8 Metro UI.
If the LastErrorText contains a line such as this: socketError: Permission denied It means you need to add permissions for Internet communications in your manifest. It should be placed outside of the application tag, such as: <manifest> <application> . . . </application> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” /> </manifest>
Chilkat v9.3.1 is in the process of being released this week. The release notes (below) detail the changes, fixes, new features, etc. regarding the new version. All Added a free supporting CkDateTime object for date/time functionality. The use of SYSTEMTIME will become deprecated in favor of methods that instead return a CkDateTime object. More information about this will be added […]
Regarding Objective-C programming for MAC OS X and IOS: (from https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html ) Cocoa always expects there to be an autorelease pool available. If a pool is not available, autoreleased objects do not get released and your application leaks memory. If you send an autorelease message when a pool is not available, Cocoa logs a suitable error message. The AppKit and […]