Chilkat v11.6.0 / v11.6.1 Release Notes
See Release Notes for Versions 11.6.0 and 11.6.1
Chilkat v11.5.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]
Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]
Windows 10 1803 can’t run EXE files from a network shared folders
Chilkat has been receiving support email with the following error: connectSocket: connect_ipv6_or_ipv4: resolveHostname6: getAddressInfo: Failed to get host address info. (3) SocketError: Error 0x2afb Check to make sure the connection is not blocked by a firewall or anti-virus port filtering. hostOrIpAddr: **** port: See http://www.chilkatforum.com/questions/11627/sftp-failed-to-get-address-info for a possible cause of this error. Versions of Windows […]
Yield and SleepMs in PowerBuilder
This is a note for PowerBuilder programmers: Some Chilkat classes provide a SleepMs method, which is provided as a convenience. The SleepMs method puts the thread to sleep for a number of milliseconds. However, this is not the same as a PowerBuilder Yield, which “Yields control to other graphic objects, including objects that are not […]
Chilkat v9.5.0.72 Release Notes
The v9.5.0.71 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.71 Release Notes v9.5.0.72 Release Notes: FTP2 Fixed FTP implicit SSL/TLS uploads for some FTP servers. CkString Fixed: In the Delphi DLL build, the CkString.split* and tokenize* methods caused a crash. Encryption Modification: Encrypting 0 bytes for block cipher algorithms with padding now results in one block […]
C# TreeView to JSON and Back
Here’s a C# class for persisting a TreeView to JSON, and for restoring a TreeView from JSON.
Chilkat v9.5.0.71 Release Notes
The v9.5.0.70 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.70 Release Notes v9.5.0.71 Release Notes: FileAccess Added the GetFileTime method to get the last-modified, created, or last-access file date/time. Email Automatically fixes FROM email addresses to prevent email spoofing as described at https://www.mailsploit.com/index FileAcccess If FileSize() returns -1 (failed), then the LastMethodSuccess property was not properly […]
Minimizing Time to Send Email
Programmers using Chilkat to send email can do some simple things, and can avoid common mistakes to optimize the time it takes to send an email. 1) A common mistake is when a programmer calls mailman.VerifySmtpConnection and mailman.VerifySmtpLogin prior to actually sending the email. The intent of the Verify methods is for an application to […]
Chilkat v9.5.0.70 Release Notes
The v9.5.0.69 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.69 Release Notes v9.5.0.70 Release Notes: WebSocket Added the WebSocket class. FTP2 The LargeFileMeasures property now applies to uploads. (It originally applied only to FTP downloads.) FTP2 For synchronization uploads, such as for the SyncRemoteTree method, the AutoGetSizeForProgress property now applies. The local directory tree is only […]
Chilkat v9.5.0.69 Release Notes
The v9.5.0.68 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.68 Release Notes v9.5.0.69 Release Notes: XML Digital Signatures Chilkat introduces two new classes for creating and verifying XML Digital Signatures: XmlDSig (for verification) and XmlDSigGen for generating XML signatures. More examples will be available soon. S/MIME The ability to get the digest and encryption algorithms encountered […]
Setup Google Account for Google Drive API Walkthrough
A software developer had trouble getting started using Chilkat with his application for Google Drive. He gave me his login/password to help get him started. This blog post is a recording of the steps I’ve taken to set things up on the Google side to allow an application to access Google Drive files using a […]
Java to copy byte[] to/from a CkByteArray
The Chilkat online reference documentation for the CkByteData class, concerning the methods for copying Java byte arrays into and out of a CkByteData object, are incorrect. This is the correct way to do it: