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tylerhall | 3 months ago

Developer of the app here. You’re correct. Accessibility APIs + timer + transparent top-level NSWindow that ignores input and draws a border.

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bsnnkv|3 months ago

Fwiw I think this is the right approach. The trade-off between stability across OS updates vs tracking performance is a no-brainer for me - the absolute last thing that I would want is a deluge of bug reports with no other information than "it stopped working" when Apple pushes out an update

hyperhello|3 months ago

As a developer I would interpret that as "try it in the new OS and you will immediately see what is wrong so there is no reason for me to write a tedious and unnecessary message to you".

Angostura|3 months ago

Very nice idea, thank you for developing it. With an M1 iMac, though the window border lags the position of the window quite a lot if you drag it around, so probably not usable for me.

OGEnthusiast|3 months ago

Some lag is probably going to be unavoidable with a third-party app. The only way to have perfect synchronization of window dragging/resizing and the border is for macOS to implement this as a first-party feature.

AshamedCaptain|3 months ago

I really ponder what is the usecase here that requires dragging windows "quite a lot" and also makes a lagging window border "not usable".

inatreecrown2|3 months ago

I thought I take a look at the code, but I can only find readme and license?