App.get cannot fetch some apps on macOS 15.5 (24F74)

[MDL13412]

System Info

• macOS 15.5 (24F74)
• Phoenix 4.0.1 (137)

How to reproduce

Key.on("t", ["shift", "alt"], () => {
    var app = App.get("WhatsApp");
    if (app === undefined) {
        Phoenix.log("App not found: WhatsApp");
    } else {
        Phoenix.log(`App found: WhatsApp, windows count: ${app.windows().length}`);
    }

    app = App.get("Brave Browser");
    if (app === undefined) {
        Phoenix.log("App not found: Brave Browser");
    } else {
        Phoenix.log(`App found: Brave Browser, windows count: ${app.windows().length}`);
    }
});

Output:

Phoenix: App not found: WhatsApp
Phoenix: App found: Brave Browser, windows count: 2

[MDL13412]

Update:

function utf8Bytes(str) {
  const bytes = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
    let codePoint = str.charCodeAt(i);

    // surrogate pair handling
    if (codePoint >= 0xd800 && codePoint <= 0xdbff && i + 1 < str.length) {
      const next = str.charCodeAt(i + 1);
      if (next >= 0xdc00 && next <= 0xdfff) {
        codePoint = ((codePoint - 0xd800) << 10) + (next - 0xdc00) + 0x10000;
        i++;
      }
    }

    if (codePoint <= 0x7f) {
      bytes.push(codePoint);
    } else if (codePoint <= 0x7ff) {
      bytes.push(0xc0 | (codePoint >> 6));
      bytes.push(0x80 | (codePoint & 0x3f));
    } else if (codePoint <= 0xffff) {
      bytes.push(0xe0 | (codePoint >> 12));
      bytes.push(0x80 | ((codePoint >> 6) & 0x3f));
      bytes.push(0x80 | (codePoint & 0x3f));
    } else {
      bytes.push(0xf0 | (codePoint >> 18));
      bytes.push(0x80 | ((codePoint >> 12) & 0x3f));
      bytes.push(0x80 | ((codePoint >> 6) & 0x3f));
      bytes.push(0x80 | (codePoint & 0x3f));
    }
  }
  return bytes;
}


Key.on("t", ["shift", "alt"], () => {
  const allApps = App.all();
  Phoenix.log(`All apps count: ${allApps.length}`);

  _.each(allApps, (app) => {
    if (app.name().includes("WhatsApp")) {
      const bytes = utf8Bytes(app.name());
      Phoenix.log([...bytes]);
    }
  });

  const bytes = utf8Bytes("WhatsApp");
  Phoenix.log([...bytes]);
});

Output:

Phoenix: All apps count: 107
Phoenix: 226,128,142,87,104,97,116,115,65,112,112
Phoenix: 87,104,97,116,115,65,112,112

226,128,142 -> LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK

[kasper]

Hey @MDL13412! Sorry to hear that. Did you try traversing the app list and searching with the PID or bundle identifier for WhatsApp instead?

[MDL13412]

Hey @MDL13412! Sorry to hear that. Did you try traversing the app list and searching with the PID or bundle identifier for WhatsApp instead?

Yep, I used the code below as a workaround.

function tmpHackAppGet(appName) {
  let app = _.find(App.all(), (a) => {
    return a.name().localeCompare(appName, undefined, { sensitivity: 'base' }) === 0
  });
  return app;
}

[kasper]

@MDL13412 Hey! Looks like WhatsApp adds an invisible left-to-right mark (U+200E) in front of the app name for some reason. So, you can use App.get('\u200EWhatsApp') to get the app with this in mind. Obviously not ideal, but I don’t think we should add any magic to the API level. Let me know if that works.

[MDL13412]

App.get('\u200EWhatsApp') works as expect, but App.get('\u200EWhatsApp') cannot get the application.

[kasper]

@MDL13412 Did you mean to copy something different to the second one?

[MDL13412]

sorry, typo. The second one should be App.launch

[kasper]

@MDL13412 Yes, for launching you can just use App.launch('WhatsApp') since it uses the bundle name (filename for .app). This specific example is a bit of an edge case.