Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

[Mark Talluto]

On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:04 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
> 
> I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would
> seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive,
> and irrevocably suspicious.
> 
> Maybe somebody would like to graft into a developing
> LiveCode program, an automatic spy mechanism.
> 
> I suggest that nobody answer to this  e-mail, especially
> those who could conceive of a way to do it.
> 
> Confused


All tools can be used for either evil or good.  In this case, Richard Miller has been a member of this community for as long as I can remember.  The knowledge he seeks is easily obtained from very simple google searches. I happen to have a solution that might save him the time and effort of tooling around to get it right.  I understand the need for the tool he is making and see no problems with helping him to get things working.

Richard’s tool is for a company network of computers under their control.  If this technology was to be used on computers outside the control of the company, it is common to notify the user at least once that this is taking place via a dialog, preference setting, and EULA.

What I find technologically interesting is that LiveCode has progressed to a point that developers can now make tools in new markets to solve problems we could not do previously. Canela has developed a technology we lovingly refer to as minions for our office use. These light applications run silently in the background providing our software the ability to process data in a distributed fashion. This increases our productivity, which in turn increases the productive of the users of our products and services. They can be installed on every computer in our company wide network to do good. I foresee a time in the near future where we will use them in the software we provide to our customers to make our applications download updates and perform long calculations in the background. These tasks today either interrupt our users and/or degrade their experience. These silent applications work on separate threads of any modern CPU and make our offering more attractive than our competitors.

You can see the value of the minions in one of the RunRev conference videos from Atlanta circa 2012.  Skip to about the middle of my presentation and see what these little guys can do.  Is Richard’s work any different?


Best regards,

Mark Talluto
canelasoftware.com