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There is often confusion about the number of messages in a POP3 inbox (for a given user account). Here are the typical scenarios that cause confusion: If your email client such as Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird seem to show more messages than what Chilkat can see, then make sure you realize which messages are stored locally by Outlook, and which […]
The Chilkat Q&A Forum at chilkatforum.com is now available: Chilkat Q&A Forum
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
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.
If the LastErrorText contains a line such as this: socketError: Permission denied It means you need to add permissions for Internet communications in your manifest. It should be placed outside of the application tag, such as: <manifest> <application> . . . </application> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” /> </manifest>
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/
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 […]