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: Can you tell from this log why it would say “socket is not ready for writing”? OpenSmtpConnection: DllDate: Jun 9 2009 UnlockPrefix: **** Username: Administrator Component: ActiveX Need new SMTP connection SMTP_Connect: Connecting to SMTP server mail.****.com:25 smtp_host: mail.****.com smtp_port: 25 domain: mail.****.com smtp_user: **** socket is not ready for writing Connect function failed. […]
Question: Using the HTTP component I’m connecting and downloading an RSS feed via a Proxy server (fantastic!!). Trouble is – the proxy is caching yesterday’s feed and I need to force the proxy to refresh it’s contents (that’s the proxy on my network – not the Chilkat local cache). How can I tel the HTTP […]
Question: I’m trying to open a file on the SFTP server, but I get a “File not Found” error? Here is the LastErrorText: ChilkatLog: OpenFile: DllDate: Dec 2 2009 UnlockPrefix: Anything for 30-day trial Username: IUSR_ABC*** Component: ActiveX SshVersion: SSH-2.0-1.36 sshlib: GlobalScape SftpVersion: 3 hcCurDate: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:48:25 +0000 hcExpire: 1/2010 filename: test.txt […]
Question: Why did I get a permission denied error from the server when trying to open an existing file on the SSH/SFTP server? Here’s the LastErrorText: ChilkatLog: DownloadFileByName: DllDate: Dec 2 2009 UnlockPrefix: *** Username: Administrator Component: ActiveX SshVersion: SSH-2.0-CoreFTP-0.1.2 SftpVersion: 3 PreserveDate: 0 fromFilePath: /test.dat.gz toFilePath: c:\abc\test.dat.gz OpenRemoteFile: filename: /test.dat.gz access: readOnly createDisposition: openExisting […]
Question: I’m confused about DecryptPassword and EncryptPassword. I want to encrypt the files I am emailing. I want the recipient to be required to enter a password when they try to open the zipped file. Do I EncryptPassword or DecryptPassword? Answer: Use DecryptPassword when using the Chilkat Zip component / library to open an encrypted […]
(A tip from a Chilkat customer.) The only way to delete emails on Gmail is in three steps: 1. Copy the email(s) to the folder called [Gmail]/Trash 2. Select all of the emails in [Gmail]/Trash and set the Deleted flag 3. Execute ExpungeAndClose or Expunge command I found that this is the only way to […]
The technique for aborting any time-consuming Chilkat C++ method call follows this recipe: Declare your own class that derives from the appropriate Chilkat progress monitoring class. For CkMailMan it is CkMailManProgress (as shown below). For other Chilkat classes it is CkHttpProgress, CkFtpProgress, CkImapProgress, CkZipProgress, etc. Create an implementation for the AbortCheck method. This will override […]
If Java (running under Tomcat or any other environment) cannot load the Chilkat library, make sure the chilkat.dll and chilkat.jar are located in a directory listed in the java.library.path. You can view the java.library.path in your environment by inserting this line of code: System.out.println(System.getProperty(“java.library.path”))
Question: I am evaluating your product for ruby on windows xp and followed the quick start and unzipped the files into a new directory on my C drive. In my script where it calls for chilkat with the “require chilkat” statement, I get an error that says that gem can’t be found on the system. […]
Question: Help clarify something for me please. I develop in a 32bit environment, but deploy to windows 2003/2008 64bit servers. Do I install the 64bit or the 32bit ActiveX on the servers? Answer: In Visual Studio C/C++ applications, you may target either win32 or x64. If your application targets win32, you should register (using regsvr32) […]
