✨ 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. […]
Fixed the AbortCheck and PercentDone events for the Single-DLL ActiveX. These events did not fire. This was a problem that only affected the Single-DLL ActiveX.
Question: “I’ve got the Chilkat C++ libs linked with my project, and am using the HTTP classes successfully. One thing is confusing me, though. I’ve derived a class from CkHttpProgress.h and overridden AbortCheck(…) to provide cancellation support. However, AbortCheck(…) never gets called. At first, I thought perhaps the HTTP retrieval was occurring too quickly, so I set the “HeartbeatMs” […]
The AbortCheck event is standard in Chilkat .NET classes that involve communications over sockets (FTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, etc.) or time-consuming operations such as zipping/unzipping large files. There are three steps to using AbortCheck: 1. Enable event callbacks by setting the EnableEvents property = true. Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan(); mailman.EnableEvents = true; 2. […]
The FTP2 component’s SyncLocalTree method downloads an entire directory tree from an FTP server to the local filesystem. There are several modes of operation: mode=0: Download all files mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem. mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files. mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does […]
