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The Chilkat C++ libraries are now available for Embarcadero® C++ Builder® For the downloads and more information, see: Chilkat for C++ Builder® “C++Builder” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies. “Embarcadero” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies.
The Chilkat Java libraries are now available for Solaris 10. For downloads and more information see: Chilkat Java Libraries for Solaris 10
The Chilkat C / C++ libraries are now available for Solaris 10. For downloads and more information see: Chilkat C / C++ Libraries for Solaris 10
The Chilkat libraries have been released for the Android™ mobile operating system. Go to Chilkat for Android The Chilkat for Android library supports Android Platform 2.0 (API Level 5) and above. Chilkat has been tested on Honeycomb (Android 3.0, API Level 11). The Chilkat library should be compatible with future versions of Android.
Examples for computing a URL signature for the Google Maps API: ASP: URL Signing for Google Maps API SQL Server: URL Signing for Google Maps API C#: URL Signing for Google Maps API C++: URL Signing for Google Maps API Objective-C: URL Signing for Google Maps API PowerShell: URL Signing for Google Maps API MFC: URL Signing for Google Maps […]
(A helpful note from a Chilkat customer, reproduced in slightly edited form with permission) The primary issue was that I was creating a Windows DLL (using MinGW) rather than a Windows executable. Now, whilst I agree this shouldn’t make any difference it seems that it does. On the web site (http://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads_mingw.asp) you indicate that MinGW systems should be linked with: […]
This error message is specific to the ProFTPd server. A Chilkat customer found this error within the LastErrorText after trying to upload or download a file, or retrieve a directory listing: 425 Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted The latest ProFTPd server has a configuration setting that by default requires SSL/TLS sessions to be re-used, and this breaks […]
(Also see the ActiveX DLL Registration Tutorial) The first step is to determine if you need to register the ActiveX DLL compiled for 32-bit or 64-bit. If your computer is 32-bit, the choice is obviously 32-bit. Let’s start with it: How to Register a 32-bit DLL on a 32-bit Windows operating system Using a text editor, create a .bat file […]
To handle accented characters in filenames correctly, the FTP client must know what character encoding is used to represent these characters (such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.). The Ftp2.DirListingCharset property indicates the character encoding to be used when interpreting the bytes of a filename (in a directory listing). By default, it is set to “ANSI”, which is another name for the […]
FileAccess: Changed “int” arguments to “unsigned int”. bool FileOpen(String *filename, unsigned int accessMode, unsigned int shareMode, unsigned int createDisp, unsigned int attr); RSA: If the result of a signature was a binary value such that the leading byte(s) were 0, then these NULL bytes were not included in the encoded output (such as for Base64, Hex, etc.). This was fixed. […]