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’m trying to find out the maximum size of the POP3 UIDL. I’ve found various POP3 specs, but they dont list field sizes. Do you know the max size or can you give me any links to this info? Answer: (from RFC 1939) The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string, consisting […]
Question: Is it possible to change the password for a POP3 account or create a POP3 account? Answer: Account management is not part of the POP3 protocol and therefore it is not possible to change POP3 passwords programmatically.
Question: Is your component fully threadable? Is it thread safe to use in a multithreaded application? Does it Supports multiple (simultaneous) connections? Answer: Yes, it’s safe for multi-threading. However, you cannot have several threads all trying to share the same POP3 or SMTP session at the same time because they would all interfere with each […]
The POP3 protocol is such that a new session is started after a successful login. The session is a snapshot of the existing emails in the mailbox. Any new email that arrives during the session will not be seen until the session is ended (i.e. you logout) and a new session is started. Also, emails […]
