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. […]
A few issues relating to self-extracting EXE’s are explained here: The Purpose of a Self-Extracting EXE The purpose of a self-extracting EXE is to provide something that will extract/unpackage files such that no other software is required to be installed on the computer where it is run. Common archive file formats, such as .zip, .tar, […]
This post pertains to using the Chilkat Self-Extracting EXE utility. The goal is to create a self-extracting EXE such that the files are unzipped into the directory where the EXE is located. To do this, the %CD% environment variable is used in a DOS command line. The intent is to use the -d option with […]
The most common question regarding Chilkat self-extracting EXE’s is: How do I create a silent extractor that runs a “setup” program after extracting? Answer: Here is a sample command line that creates a silent self-extracting EXE: ChilkatZipSE -u unlockCode -a -sm -sp -nowait -r setup.exe -exe a.exe a.zip The “-r” option is used to specify […]
