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. […]
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, […]
The Chilkat Java library is now available for MAC OS X. For the download link and more information, see http://www.chilkatsoft.com/installJavaMacOSX.asp Chilkat will soon release MAC OS X compatible builds for Perl, Python, and Ruby. Following that, builds for the IOS (IPhone) will be released, along with Objective-C/C++ native libraries for both MAC OS X and […]
The Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX provides the following event callbacks: ‘ IMPORTANT: For all callbacks, arguments named “skip” or “abort” are output-only arguments. ‘ These arguments may be set to 1 within the callback to either skip a ‘ particular file upload/download, or abort the entire operation. Dim WithEvents ftp As ChilkatFtp2 ‘ Called just before […]
The Chilkat C/C++ libraries are now available for MAC OS X. For the download link and more information, see http://www.chilkatsoft.com/installMacOSX.asp Chilkat will soon release MAC OS X compatible builds for Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby. Following that, builds for the IOS (IPhone) will be released, along with Objective-C/C++ native libraries for both MAC OS X […]
Question: I need an easy way to verify that a zip downloaded, i.e test it, preferably without actually unzipping it to a directory. I couldn’t find any method like that – the files are small enough in the zip I could probably unzip them into memory. Is that pretty much the only way to do […]
Socket: Added the ReceivedCount property. It always increases to reflect the number of bytes received via any method. It may be reset to 0 by the application at any point. HTTP: Changed ClearEventLog method name to ClearBgEventLog MailMan: Changed default values of MailMan.EmbedCertChain and MailMan.IncludeRootCert to True (or 1 for ActiveX). Spider: Changed CkSpider::GetDomain(url) to […]
Question: I am doing a project that requires a web site to list files from an SFTP server and allow the visitor to download them. Following the examples on your site, it was very easy to list the files. However, you have no example of downloading a file to the user, only to the local […]
Question: I really like your component but there’s one problem with Crypt2. Is there anyway to verify if the file is encrypted before decrypt? I’m asking this question is because if I try to decrypt an unencrypted file, that file will be corrupted. Answer: The output of any Chilkat Crypt2 method that does symmetric encryption […]
A few issues relating to self-extracting EXE’s are explained here: The Purpose of a Self-Extracting EXE The purpose of a self-extracting EXE is to provide something that will extract/unpackage files such that no other software is required to be installed on the computer where it is run. Common archive file formats, such as .zip, .tar, […]
Question: I try to install the Chilkat Perl library into my Linux but I get this error: “/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/libchilkat.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr” Answer: The Chilkat library is supports multi-threading, so when building Perl one must use the “Multi-Threading” option.
