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. […]
When Chilkat Zip writes a .zip, it first writes to a temporary file. (The location of the temporary file is controlled by the zip.TempDir property.) After the .zip is successfully written to the temp file, it is then renamed (i.e. moved) to the output filename. The reason for doing this is to safeguard an existing […]
Question: We are trying out the FTP2 ActiveX component for ASP. What we need to do is have people be able to upload files to the web server over the Internet. Is this component able to do this – or can it only FTP files that are already on the web server? Answer: This is […]
Question: Our problem that in the POP3 incoming account there are 400 mails but the developer’s UIDL query can see only the first 251 mails and downloads only 251 mails. Answer: There may be several common reasons. The first thing to do is to verify number of emails in the mailbox by calling the mailman.GetMailboxCount […]
Question: There is a possibility that the file to be deleted does not actually exist, so can I do a test first so that i only delete if it is present and thus avoid any nasty warning about missing files? Answer: The Chilkat components/libraries never pop up warnings or display error messages — they simply […]
Question: Some of our users are reporting that the self-extracting file reports “Failed to extract file”. The user has admin access to the file system and the file is not corrupted. Answer: When running the self-extracting EXE, use the “-log” command line option to generate a log file with error information. If the reason for […]
This blog post describes the solution to a problem experienced by a Chilkat customer trying to open a .zip archive using the Chilkat Zip ActiveX component in COM+. His/her code worked in a typical application environment, but not in COM+. The error occurred when trying to open a large .zip. The solution was to enable […]
Question: Hi, I’m extremely interested in purchasing the Chilikat SSH dll. Let me describe my situation: I have several host sites (approximately 70 of them) that allow me to connect to their SSH servers. All of these sites have a database server (sitting on the same server as the ssh server) accepting connections on port […]
This just came to our attention. When sending email using Exchange Server, a Ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit Permissions problem seems like an incorrect login/password error. A sample of the Chilkat.MailMan’s LastErrorXml is shown below. To get more information, Google “Ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit permission”… <ChilkatLog> <SendEmail> <DllDate>Mar 6 2009</DllDate> <UnlockPrefix>anything for 30-day trial</UnlockPrefix> <Username>***</Username> <Component>Java</Component> <Recipients> <NumTo>1</NumTo> <To>***</To> <NumCC>0</NumCC> <NumBCC>0</NumBCC> </Recipients> […]
Explicitly setting the date/time for a file on the FTP server is not a well defined task w/ the FTP protocol. Some servers support the MDTM command. However, MDTM is officially for getting a remote file’s date/time. Some FTP servers allow for using MDTM to set a remote file’s date/time (even though this is not […]
See the Python documentation for Modules. Specifically, scroll down to the section entitled “The Module Search Path” and “Compiled Python Files”. ( Although the information for locating modules is for Python 2.6, I believe the same information applies to Python 2.5 at Python 2.5.4 Modules Documentation )
