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Demonstrates a TaskCompleted event for an asynchronous Chilkat method call. The event callback occurs in the background thread, and therefore any updates to the UI must happen on the UI thread. For this reason, MethodInvoker is used to make updates to a TextBox..
Demonstrates the TaskCompleted event callback using the Chilkat Delphi ActiveX:
This sample C# snippet demonstrates how to use the TaskCompleted event to be notified when an asynchronous method completes. Given that the event callback is in the background thread, any UI updates must occur on the main thread. This example demonstrates how to do it:
In many places in the Chilkat API, there are properties or method arguments for a charset (also known as character encoding). All acceptable and supported charset names are listed here. (The vast majority are likely almost never used.) Before we list the names and the corresponding code pages, there are a few special values. “ansi” is a string that can […]
Starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52, asynchronous capability is added across all classes and all programming languages. The new Task and TaskChain classes have been added. To Beta test, send email to support@chilkatsoft.com. Please specify the programming language, operating system, etc. that is needed. The online reference documentation has been updated. Examples will be forthcoming. Version 9.5.0.52 will be released later this […]
Scp: Added the Scp class (CkScp, Chilkat.Scp, CkoScp, etc.) for SSH Secure Copy. The Scp class is included as part of the SSH/SFTP license. Hashtable: Added the Hashtable class (CkHashtable, Chilkat.Hashtable, CkoHashtable, etc.) This is a freeware supporting/utility class. Chilkat understands that more complete Hashtable implementations may be available in specific programming language environments. However, there are some environments with […]
Throughout the Chilkat API there are method arguments and properties to indicate an encoding. These are encodings for binary data such as “hex”, “base64”, etc. Note: These are not character encodings. A character encoding, such as “utf-8” indicates the byte representation of a character. A binary encoding, such as “base64”, represents non-character binary data in printable string form. Wherever an […]
VC++ 2015: Chilkat C++ libs are now available for the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2015. CkSettings/CkDateTime: CkSettings and CkDateTime were not visible in Linux, Mac OS X, and other non-Windows C++ libs (but only in the shared lib). SFTP: Fixed certain problems relating to the download of large files for some types of SSH servers. Python: Ensures that […]
Encoding: Added Base58 encoding as an additional choice for all places where an encoding (such as “base64”, “hex”, etc.) can be selected. Crypt2: Beware of using the GenEncodedSecretKey method — just after v9.5.0.49 was released, it was discovered that this property ignored the encoding (such as “base64” or “hex”) of the 2nd arg and instead followed the encoding as specified […]
What is the difference between an HTTP Upload and a SOAP Request? An upload is an HTTP request that uses the multipart/form-data content-type. (All HTTP requests and responses are MIME, and the format of a given request is determined by the content-type.) A SOAP request, on the other hand, has a content-type of text/xml, which means it is composed of […]