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 — […]
HTTP Progress Monitoring in C++
This blog post shows how to monitor the progress of HTTP uploads and downloads in C++. The first step is to create a C++ callback class that derives from the CkHttpProgress base class. You’ll be overriding one or more of the callback methods. For example: class MyHttpProgress : public CkHttpProgress { public: MyHttpProgress(void) { } […]
BASE64 Decode with Charset GB2312
Question: I have a Base64 decode error, as follows: CkString str; str.setString(“16q”); str.base64Decode(“gb2312”); const char *strResult = str.getString(); convert result is { cb f2 } But the correct result should be { d7 aa} What’s wrong? The platform is WinCE 6.0, use Chilkat_PPC_M5.lib Answer: The following code shows how to do it correctly: CkString str; […]
Scan/Replace Text in Email Body in C++
This example may help C++ programmers needing to scan email bodies for strings and automatically replace: void EmailBodyExample(void) { CkEmail email; // Set the plain-text and HTML alternative bodies. // Note: Because we’re using literal strings, the strings passed // to these methods are ANSI strings (i.e. they are 1-byte per char // in this […]
Chilkat 9.0.4 Release Notes
C++ Libraries Removed internal calls to setlocale so that the locale is never changed from whatever your application may have set it to. Compression Fixed rare PPMD crash. DSA Fixed LoadText method in DSA ActiveX. FTP2 Two additional modes added to SyncLocalTree: mode 5 – Download only missing files or files with size differences. mode […]
Delete POP3 Email Based on Date / Age?
Question: Is it possible to delete email sitting on the POP3 server based on its age? For example, have it only delete mail from server older than 5 days. Answer: The POP3 protocol itself does not have the direct ability to delete email based on date/time (or any other selection criteria). The POP3 protocol only […]
POP3 or IMAP for MS Exchange Server?
Question: I would like to use your product to process mail on an MS Exchange server. Which product should I use; Chilkat MAIL or Chilkat IMAP? I saw in your examples that I can use both to connect to an Exchange server MAIL with Pop3 and IMAP for a direct login on the server but […]
SFTP Append to Existing File
To append to an existing file using the Chilkat SFTP component / library, open the file for “writeOnly” and “openExisting”, then call any of the Write* methods (such as WriteFileText or WriteFileBytes), and then close the handle by calling CloseHandle. As always, if a method returns a failed status, check the contents of the LastErrorText […]
BounceAddress w/ SendMimeBytes and SendMime
Question: I use SendMimeBytes Method of Mailman object to send Domain Keys Verified e-mails. But when I use this method I can’ t use BounceAddress property to set up bounce addresses. For this reason I can’t get bounced e-mails as I want. When I use SendMail Method everything is ok. What should I do to […]
VB6 Runtime error 91 – Object variable or With block variable not set
A Chilkat method that returns an object must be checked for NULL ( also known as Nothing, nil, nada, etc. in other programming languages). A NULL return value indicates failure. In this case, check the contents of the object instance’s LastErrorText property. In Visual Basic 6.0, this is the error message you’d get when trying […]
SFTP Progress Monitoring and Abort (C#)
Here is an example for monitoring the progress of an SFTP file transfer: void sftp_OnPercentDone(object sender, Chilkat.PercentDoneEventArgs args) { progressBar1.Value = args.PercentDone; // To abort at any point, you may set args.Abort = true // args.Abort = true; } void sftp_OnAbortCheck(object sender, Chilkat.AbortCheckEventArgs args) { // See https://cknotes.com/?p=149 for more information about // using the […]