Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  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 […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

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 […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

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.  […]

Bind to Adapter Functionality on the Windows Platform

June 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

The following is a note from a Chilkat customer, reproduced with permission: “Here is some info you might find interesting. As you may know, we’ve run into strange problems while trying to use the ‘bind to adapter’ functionality (i.e. ClientIpAddress property) of Chilkat (HTTP and FTP).  On Windows 7 it worked fine, but on Windows […]

Chilkat 9.2.0 Release Notes

May 26, 2011 in Uncategorized

(Email Object) The AspUnpack and AspUnpack2 methods were fixed to prevent the creation of duplicate HTML files. (Zip) On Linux systems only, the AppendFiles method failed in a rare specific circumstance. (TAR) Fixed Base256 internal decoding problem to support TAR archives larger than 8GB. (Email, MIME, Crypt2) Internal PKCS7 signed-data issue fixed for cases where […]

Using chilkat.SYSTEMTIME in Python

May 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

Demonstrates how to create and populate a chilkat. SYSTEMTIME object in Python. import sys import chilkat email = chilkat.CkEmail() sysTime = chilkat.SYSTEMTIME(); # The SYSTEMTIME structure has the following members: # wYear (such as 2011) # wMonth (1 = January, 12 = December) # wDayOfWeek (0 to 6, where 0 = Sunday 1 = Monday, […]

(Python) Using strings returned from sqlite3

May 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

In  the Python programming language, the strings returned from sqlite3 are unicode, not 8-bit strings. Chilkat API methods with string arguments expect either ANSI or utf-8 8-bit strings.  See these Python examples: http://www.example-code.com/python/python-source-file-encoding.asp http://www.example-code.com/python/python-charset.asp A unicode string returned from sqlite3 must be converted to an 8-bit string by using “str”, as shown below: … email.put_Subject(str(unicodeStr)) […]

Mapped network drives are specific to the user account that created them

May 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

Question regarding SMTPQ: On the new server I mapped a network drive that was connected to the NAS box that holds the queue: s:\  =  \\xyz\smtpq\ When I set the folders in smtpQ Manager as follows the service will not start Queue Directory:    s:\queue Undelivered Directory:    s:\undelivered However if I use the network paths as […]

Unresolved External Solution for Chilkat in Visual Studio 2008 with C++ against Pocket PC 2003 (ARM)

May 12, 2011 in Uncategorized

Including Microsoft’s ccrtrtti.lib in the list of libraries for linking will solve unresolved externals such as the following: Chilkat_PPC_2003.lib(OutputFile.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “const type_info::`vftable'” (??_7type_info@@6B@) Chilkat_PPC_2003.lib(FileDataSource.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “const type_info::`vftable'” (??_7type_info@@6B@) Chilkat_PPC_2003.lib(zipCRC.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “const type_info::`vftable'” (??_7type_info@@6B@) Chilkat_PPC_2003.lib(MemoryDataSource.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol […]

GMail POP3 Authentication — Must Unlock Captcha

May 11, 2011 in Uncategorized

If captcha is enabled on your GMail account (and it is enabled by default), then GMail POP3 authentication will fail with this error (even though a correct login/password is provided) **** Connected to pop.gmail.com:995 < +OK Gpop ready for requests from 57.215.212.123 c23pf1097242ibu.22 > USER myaccount@something.com < +OK send PASS > PASS **** < -ERR […]

Chilkat C++ Libraries available for C++ Builder

May 11, 2011 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat C++ libraries are now available for Embarcadero® C++ Builder® For the downloads and more information, see:  Chilkat for C++ Builder® “C++Builder” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies. “Embarcadero” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies.