Traffic lights highlight bug about inappstorewindow HOT 6 CLOSED

This is a known issue, and I have been trying to fix it without much luck. What I know is that the themeFrame (superview of [window contentView]) has an NSTrackingArea set up to capture the mouse entered event and activate the mouse over. I have tried manually calling [themeFrame updateTrackingAreas] without success. What you could try is modifying the single tracking area of the themeFrame and set the proper rect for the traffic lights. This would basically mean creating a new tracking area with all the attributes of the current tracking area (except the rect, which would be adjusted to the new traffic light position), removing the old tracking area, and adding the new one.

I'll push a fix as soon as I figure it out (or if you figure it out, send me a pull request and I'll merge the changes).

Thanks.

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Just tried a fix real quick. I executed this code on -awakeForNib (after the traffic lights had been positioned):

- (void)_resetThemeFrameTrackingArea
{
    NSView *themeFrame = [[self contentView] superview];
    NSArray *trackingAreas = [themeFrame trackingAreas];
    if (![trackingAreas count]) { return; }
    NSTrackingArea *lightsTracking = [trackingAreas objectAtIndex:0];
    NSButton *closeButton = [self standardWindowButton:NSWindowCloseButton];
    NSRect newTrackingRect = [lightsTracking rect];
    newTrackingRect.origin.y = [closeButton frame].origin.y;
    NSTrackingArea *newArea = [[NSTrackingArea alloc] initWithRect:newTrackingRect options:[lightsTracking options] owner:[lightsTracking owner] userInfo:[lightsTracking userInfo]];
    [themeFrame removeTrackingArea:lightsTracking];
    [themeFrame addTrackingArea:newArea];
    [newArea release];
}

This didn't seem to have any effect. Maybe I'm running it too early or something. But there's a place for you to start ;-)

EDIT: If you take a look at Sparrow (another app that uses this same technique to position its traffic lights), they seem to have the exact same bug here which indicates that they most likely were not able to find a solution for it.

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Exactly, they have the same problem.
I found that the reason the newly added trackingArea doesn't work is that the trackingArea is "pending installed, notInstalled, disabled". You can find this information by logging it in the console. I still don't have a solution to fix it. :)

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I doubt that there's an easy way around this one except for completely redrawing the window from scratch; however, doing that would be a lot of work (replicating the traffic lights, resize behaviour, etc. etc.)

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Strange: If you manually resize the window (with the mouse), the tracingArea will move to the right position. I tried to resize the window with setFrame:, but it doesn't work.

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Yeah I found the exact same thing, I'm sure that dragging the resize corner invokes a private method that resets the tracking area.

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