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 need an easy way to verify that a zip downloaded, i.e test it, preferably without actually unzipping it to a directory. I couldn’t find any method like that – the files are small enough in the zip I could probably unzip them into memory. Is that pretty much the only way to do […]
Socket: Added the ReceivedCount property. It always increases to reflect the number of bytes received via any method. It may be reset to 0 by the application at any point. HTTP: Changed ClearEventLog method name to ClearBgEventLog MailMan: Changed default values of MailMan.EmbedCertChain and MailMan.IncludeRootCert to True (or 1 for ActiveX). Spider: Changed CkSpider::GetDomain(url) to […]
Question: I am doing a project that requires a web site to list files from an SFTP server and allow the visitor to download them. Following the examples on your site, it was very easy to list the files. However, you have no example of downloading a file to the user, only to the local […]
Question: I really like your component but there’s one problem with Crypt2. Is there anyway to verify if the file is encrypted before decrypt? I’m asking this question is because if I try to decrypt an unencrypted file, that file will be corrupted. Answer: The output of any Chilkat Crypt2 method that does symmetric encryption […]
A few issues relating to self-extracting EXE’s are explained here: The Purpose of a Self-Extracting EXE The purpose of a self-extracting EXE is to provide something that will extract/unpackage files such that no other software is required to be installed on the computer where it is run. Common archive file formats, such as .zip, .tar, […]
Question: I try to install the Chilkat Perl library into my Linux but I get this error: “/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/libchilkat.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr” Answer: The Chilkat library is supports multi-threading, so when building Perl one must use the “Multi-Threading” option.
Question: I am trying to write a program that will sign on to a web page. It is a sign on page where I have to enter the user ID and then the password. If is it valid then it goes to the web page. Do you have any examples like that where I can […]
Here are the steps I followed to use Chilkat’s Java library in an Eclipse project on Windows: Open Project->Properties, select “Java Build Path”, click on the “Add External JARs…” button and add the “chilkat.jar” (still within the Project Properties dialog) Click on the “Run/Debug Settings”, select your Java class, then click on the “Edit…” button. […]
Question: I’ve been trying to get the progress bar in VB6 to work, based on the code on your website, but I’m having no luck. The event isn’t even being triggered. Answer: Here are some things to try: Test progress monitoring with a large enough file such that the progress does not go from 0 […]
Question: We are trying to upload a file to SFTP using private key. We are able to connect and retrieve folder listing. But when we try to upload to one of the folder on the SFTP we get the “Permission denied” error message. The message is as below. ChilkatLog: OpenFile: DllDate: Feb 15 2010 UnlockPrefix: […]
