The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
If captcha is enabled on your GMail account (and it is enabled by default), then GMail POP3 authentication will fail with this error (even though a correct login/password is provided) **** Connected to pop.gmail.com:995 < +OK Gpop ready for requests from 57.215.212.123 c23pf1097242ibu.22 > USER myaccount@something.com < +OK send PASS > PASS **** < -ERR […]
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: […]
(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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
