✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]
✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]
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. […]
Chilkat provides its own Async functions, separate from C#’s async/await. For each synchronous Chilkat function that may take time due to network communication or other factors, an Async version is also available, returning a Chilkat Task object (distinct from C#’s Task object). Chilkat’s Async functionality exists in all of the programming languages: C++, PHP, Ruby, […]
In the distant past, there were some Chilkat classes that had a few ad-hoc Async methods and properties. For example, the Ftp2 class contained the methods AsyncPutFileStart, AsyncGetFileStart, AsyncAppendFileStart, and properties such as AsyncFinished, AsyncSuccess, and AsyncLog. A number of years ago, these were replaced with a consistent and standard async model that applies to […]
Here is a complete example showing how to write a call to an asynchronous Chilkat method in .NET Core. (Note: This is .NET Core, not .NET Framework.) This example uses the TaskCompleted callback to get notified when the task completes.
Question: We have a desktop application(client) that can communicate to many devices(servers) at the same time. A different thread pool is used for each device communication, so they do not block each other or the main thread. Because of the issue earlier, I am using the same http object for all communications. Most of the […]
Question: When using asynchronous socket methods, VFP crashes. Try running the code from the example under VFP https://www.example-code.com/foxpro/socket_async.asp What else do I need to configure? Answer: The older IDE’s such as VB6 and FoxPro don’t take kindly to background threads. The solution is to clean up the threads at the end of your program by […]
This post shows the general technique to get the object returned by a method when it is called asynchronously. For example, consider the Mailman.GetUidls() method. A synchronous call to GetUidls returns a StringArray object, as shown here: However, the async version of the method, GetUidlsAsync, returns a Task object. The TaskCompleted callback is called […]
Chilkat implements a thread pool for asynchronous tasks in all programming languages except for Node.js. For Node.js, Chilkat tasks run directly on Node’s internal thread pool (i.e. the libuv thread pool). The Task.Run() method can have 0 or 1 arguments. If an argument is passed, it is the “task completed” callback that get called when […]
Event callbacks in Java (including Android) are supported starting in v9.5.0.52. To receive event callbacks, first create a Java class derived from one of the Chilkat event callback classes. The event callback classes are: CkBaseProgress, CkHttpProgress, CkZipProgress, CkFtp2Progress, CkMailManProgress, CkTarProgress, and CkSFtpProgress. All future Chilkat classes will only use CkBaseProgress. Theses event callback classes will […]
Demonstrates a TaskCompleted event for an asynchronous Chilkat method call. The event callback occurs in the background thread, and therefore any updates to the UI must happen on the UI thread. For this reason, MethodInvoker is used to make updates to a TextBox..
Demonstrates the TaskCompleted event callback using the Chilkat Delphi ActiveX:
