Chilkat for Windows Phone (Beta) Available
The Chilkat Runtime Component for Windows Phone is available for testing: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/winPhone.asp
Chilkat C/C++ libs for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12)
The Chilkat C/C++ libs for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12) downloads are ready: 32-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86-vc12.zip 64-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86_64-vc12.zip
Chilkat v9.5.0 pre-release for iOS arm64 / x86_64 is Ready
A new build of Chilkat v9.5.0 supporting the arm64 and x86_64 iOS architectures is available: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-ios.zip The static libraries are provided differently than before. Chilkat provides static libs for each architecture slice: i386 (for the simulator), armv7, armv7s, arm64, and armv6 (for older versions of iOS). The libs are located in the directories as shown here: lib/i386/libchilkatIos.a lib/x86_64/libchilkatIos.a lib/armv6/libchilkatIos.a lib/armv7/libchilkatIos.a […]
Understanding EncryptStringENC and DecryptStringENC in Python and C/C++
Chilkat provides API’s that are identical across a variety of different programming languages. One difficulty in doing this is in handling strings. Different programming languages pass strings in different ways. In some programming languages, such as Python or C/C++, a “string” is simply a sequence of bytes terminated by a null. (I’m referring to “multibyte” strings, not Unicode (utf-16) strings. […]
Email “Received” Headers
When an email is sent, it should contain no “Received” header fields. Each time the email is processed by a mail server along the delivery route, a new Received header field is prepended to the email. The very first Received header is added by the SMTP server that the SMTP client (such as your app or a program such as […]
v9.4.1.44 Added Http.AwsEndpoint Property
The AwsEndpoint property is the regional endpoint (domain) to be used for Amazon S3 method calls. The default value is “s3.amazonaws.com”. This can be set to any valid Amazon S3 endpoint, such as “s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com”, or the endpoints for S3-API compatible services from other different providers. This is a pre-release feature. Pre-release builds are made available upon request (support@chilkatsoft.com). Please make […]
v9.4.1.43 Fixed FTP2 XCRC Problem
Fixed an FTP2 XCRC issue. If the AutoXcrc property was turned on, Chilkat FTP2 was not computing the CRC of the local file (or data) uploaded to the server. This caused the CRC comparison to fail after the XCRC command was issued. Note: This fix only applies when using AutoXcrc in conjunction with a server that actually supports XCRC. This […]
Chilkat 64-bit DLL for Delphi XE4 Now Available.
The 64-bit build of the Chilkat DLL for Delphi XE4 has been added to the v9.4.1 SP1 distribution. See http://www.chilkatsoft.com/delphiDll.asp The 32-bit DLL is named ChilkatDelphiXE.dll and is valid for Delphi XE2, XE3, and XE4 (and will likely be valid for future Delphi releases). The 64-bit DLL is named ChilkatDelphiXE4.dll and is valid for both Delphi XE3 and XE4. The […]
Chilkat v9.4.1 SP1 Release
The Chilkat v9.4.1 SP1 Release (August 2013) contains the following fixes. Note: The versions and dates in the following list are the pre-release versions and the date the pre-release was provided to a customer that reported the problem. The version is what is found in the “Version” property of a Chilkat object/class. 9.4.1.42, 15-Aug-2013, SP1 Release 9.4.1.41, 14-Aug-2013, Mime.AddDetachedSignature, AddDetachedSignature2 […]
Helpful Hints for Monitoring Progress in iOS Applications
This is some advice from an iOS application developer using Chilkat FTP2. It is about monitoring the progress of an FTP upload or download, but it’s a technique that can be considered for updating the UI for any long-running operation that provides percent-done event callbacks: “It took me a while to avoid all the problems with updating the progress window […]