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. […]
Question: I am trying to write a program that will sign on to a web page. It is a sign on page where I have to enter the user ID and then the password. If is it valid then it goes to the web page. Do you have any examples like that where I can […]
Here are the steps I followed to use Chilkat’s Java library in an Eclipse project on Windows: Open Project->Properties, select “Java Build Path”, click on the “Add External JARs…” button and add the “chilkat.jar” (still within the Project Properties dialog) Click on the “Run/Debug Settings”, select your Java class, then click on the “Edit…” button. […]
Question: I’ve been trying to get the progress bar in VB6 to work, based on the code on your website, but I’m having no luck. The event isn’t even being triggered. Answer: Here are some things to try: Test progress monitoring with a large enough file such that the progress does not go from 0 […]
Question: We are trying to upload a file to SFTP using private key. We are able to connect and retrieve folder listing. But when we try to upload to one of the folder on the SFTP we get the “Permission denied” error message. The message is as below. ChilkatLog: OpenFile: DllDate: Feb 15 2010 UnlockPrefix: […]
Question: I’m going to be using them in VB.Net to process a GMail inbox. In GMail they use Labels instead of folders. Are the labels that belong to an email visible via your tool? Ideally the VB application would process the inbox, and perform actions based on the label. Answer: I investigated and it refreshed […]
The following problem is common. The goal is to match the signature produced by this OpenSSL command w/ Chilkat: cat in.txt | openssl dgst -sha1 -sign myPrivateKey.pem | openssl enc -base64 The “gotcha” is when the input text file ends with a linefeed character (a single byte having value 0x0A), but the programmer does not […]
This happens if the Chilkat ActiveX objects are dragged and dropped onto your formvia the “Project–>Components” menu. Instead, add a reference to the objects via the “Project–>References” menu. Instances of the object should be created dynamically. For example: Dim imap as ChilkatImap Set imap = New ChilkatImap
One possible cause of this socket connect error is when an Anti-Virus program blocks the connection. This can happen if the AV program is blocking the outbound port. If some programs can connect to a given remote host:port, but your application cannot, then check your Anti-Virus program to see if exceptions were made for specific […]
Download 64-bit Python 2.5: chilkat-9.1.0-Python-2.5-x86_64-linux.tar.gz 64-bit Python 2.6: chilkat-9.1.0-Python-2.6-x86_64-linux.tar.gz 32-bit Python 2.5: chilkat-9.1.0-Python-2.5-i686-linux.tar.gz 32-bit Python 2.6: chilkat-9.1.0-Python-2.6-i686-linux.tar.gz Install Instructions Login as root and decompress and unpackfrom the root (“/”) directory. su cd / gzip -dc chilkat-9.1.0-python-2.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar -xof – That’s all. However, please read the information below to find out where the files are […]
Downloads Perl 5.8, 64-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86_64-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.8, 32-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.10, 64-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.10-x86_64-linux.tar.gz Perl 5.10, 32-bit: chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.10-x86-linux.tar.gz Install Instructions A. Decompress and unpack to any directory. gzip -dc chilkat-9.1.0-Perl-5.8-x86_64-linux.tar.gz | tar -xof – B. BUILD Go into the newly-created directory and type: perl Makefile.PL make make test C. INSTALL While still in that directory, type: […]
