Unlocking a Chilkat Component

To unlock a Chilkat component, call the UnlockComponent method immediately after creating the first object instance, but before any other methods are called. Here is an example in Visual Basic for Chilkat Mail:

Dim mailman As ChilkatMailMan
Set mailman = New ChilkatMailMan
mailman.UnlockComponent "unlock_code"
...

If a component is placed on a Visual Basic form, you can call UnlockComponent in Form_Load:

Private Sub Form_Load()
ChilkatCrypt1.UnlockComponent "unlock-code"
End Sub

Component properties can be get/set before unlocking the component. It is only necessary to call UnlockComponent once per object instantiation. Calling UnlockComponent on a component that is already unlocked will not cause an error.