Chilkat Q&A Forum (chilkatforum.com) Available
The Chilkat Q&A Forum at chilkatforum.com is now available: Chilkat Q&A Forum
ActiveX Object Creation (CreateObject) Strings
The strings that should be passed to CreateObject for each of the Chilkat ActiveX components are listed in the reference documentation. For example: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xChilkatSFtpRef.html
Windows 8 Metro UI supported?
Question: Does Chilkat support Windows 8 Metro UI? Answer: Yes, any of the existing Chilkat libraries, components, etc. should run with no problems on the Windows 8 Metro UI.
Chilkat v9.3.1 Release Notes
Chilkat v9.3.1 is in the process of being released this week. The release notes (below) detail the changes, fixes, new features, etc. regarding the new version. All Added a free supporting CkDateTime object for date/time functionality. The use of SYSTEMTIME will become deprecated in favor of methods that instead return a CkDateTime object. More information about this will be added […]
Auto-release Pools and Background Threads
Regarding Objective-C programming for MAC OS X and IOS: (from https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/mmAutoreleasePools.html ) Cocoa always expects there to be an autorelease pool available. If a pool is not available, autoreleased objects do not get released and your application leaks memory. If you send an autorelease message when a pool is not available, Cocoa logs a suitable error message. The AppKit and […]
Linking “C” Programs with the Chilkat C/C++ Libs
The Chilkat C/C++ libs are (internally) written in C++. Therefore, when linking a “C” program with the Chilkat libs, the C++ runtime libs must be included. This is true regardless of the operating system, whether it be Windows, MAC OS X, IOS, Linux, etc. Different build environments will have different ways of accomplishing the task. For example, with XCode (on […]
Chilkat Customer App in Apple App Store
Question: Will using Chilkat (for IOS) prevent my app from being accepted into the Apple App Store? Answer: Using the Chilkat libs for IOS does not prevent it from being accepted in the Apple App Store. For reference, the following app uses Chilkat and was accepted into the app store on 14-March-2012. http://www.bouncemyx.com/
(C++) Return Email Headers as iso-8859-15? (or any other charset)
Question: In C++, is it somehow possible to specify a desired charset (like ISO-8859-15) when getting mail headers with POP3? Answer: Instead of calling the method that returns a “const char *” — which can return either utf-8 or ANSI (see this Chilkat blog post about the Utf8 property common to all Chilkat C++ classes), call the alternate method that […]
SFTP vs. FTPS
Clarification on the acronyms “SFTP” and “FTPS” “SFTP” is the Secure File Transfer Protocol over SSH. It is a protocol unrelated to the FTP protocol. (It is actually a subsystem of SSH.) The Chilkat SSH / SFTP component is used for “SFTP”. SFTP is achieved by connecting to an SSH server at port 22. On the other hand, the Chilkat […]