The Unarchiver displays badge in Launchpad

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After I unzip a file by double clicking it gets extracted. Then the program 
displays a badge (for something that 'needs attention') on Launchpad. I click 
on the icon and the preferences open, but the badge doesn't disappear.

I have no idea what the badge is for. Ideally though, it wouldn't be there or 
be a preference if it has significant use.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by GhostLyr...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2012 at 2:08

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That sounds like a Launchpad bug to me, really. The Unarchiver shows a badge 
while unarchiving that shows how many archives are left. If Launchpad doesn't 
remove that when the extraction ends, that would be a Launchpad bug.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2012 at 3:09

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If the archive is small, sometimes the progress bar isn't removed

Original comment by jaimem...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2012 at 6:21

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• ProgressBarRemains.png

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Issue 600 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2012 at 1:09

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I tested out BitTorrent.app, which also uses dock icon overlays and badges.

Using this program, I downloaded ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.  After the 
download was finished, BitTorrent showed a badge of "1" which also appeared in 
Launchpad.  I then used Activity Monitor to Quit (not "Force Quit") the app.  
The badge icon was not removed in Launchpad.

So it does appear to be a Launchpad bug.  However, is it possible to work 
around this issue?  What if, instead of using the actual badge mechanism, you 
added the badge as an overlay on top of the dock icon like what you do for the 
progress bar overlay, and what BitTorrent.app does for the download speed?

Original comment by dtrebbien@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 12:55

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• [BitTorrent screenshot.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/theunarchiver/issue-584/comment-4/BitTorrent screenshot.png)
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I wonder if it gets stuck because the time between the removal of the badge and 
the program quitting is too short. Maybe there is a way to ensure Launchpad has 
the time to update.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 1:01

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Using the badge, the standard OS X look is used, but using an overlay view 
would need to replicate it. Also the overlay view sometimes isn't removed on 
the Dock

Original comment by jaimem...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 1:01

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True, the badge icon look would need to be duplicated.  But, it sounds like 
that would not work anyway.

This issue reminds me of a bug in early Windows 2000, where the tray icon for a 
program was not removed when the program exited.  Oh the lengths that some 
Windows programmers would go to remove this icon!  The usual trick was to 
simulate a mouse event on the tray icon after the program removed it, which 
would prompt Windows into realizing that the tray icon could be removed.

I, too, wonder if there is a way to give Launchpad time to update.  Simply 
waiting a bit until exiting would probably not work 100% of the time; it is a 
race condition.  Maybe there is some way to force a synchronous display update 
in Launchpad?

In BitTorrent, the badge is removed once the user clicks on the dock icon, 
bringing the app to the front again.  Is there a way to simulate this?

Original comment by dtrebbien@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 1:13

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Maybe it would work if the badge count is set to 0 when TUController is dealloc.

Original comment by jaimem...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 1:24

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I think it should always be 0 already at that point. If it isn't, that's 
probably a bug.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 2:10

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I modified TUDockTileView to store the last count as well as 
applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed: to return YES only when the 
count is 0.  I can confirm that the count is 0 when The Unarchiver exits.

The interesting thing is, if I modify 
applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed: to always return NO, the 
progress bar on the dock icon lags behind the progress bar on the main window.  
Also, the main window closes a few moments before the progress bar on the dock 
icon reaches 100%.

I wonder if the problem is that the dock icon display had not finished updating 
before The Unarchiver terminated.

Original comment by dtrebbien@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 11:41

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There is a bug which causes crashes on older OS X versions, which is that the 
display method of the dock tile is called on a secondary thread. Could that 
affect this, too?

Try just changing the call to display to 
performSelectorOnMainThread(@selector(display)) and see if that helps, maybe?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 11:50

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Yes.  The badge label is removed properly if I change the three calls to 
display to:

[[NSApp dockTile] performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(display) withObject:nil 
waitUntilDone:YES];

Original comment by dtrebbien@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 12:16

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Just tried waitUntilDone:NO and the problem reappears.

Original comment by dtrebbien@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 12:20

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Issue 604 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2012 at 2:09

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Well, I moved all updates to the main thread, and I did some feng shui 
rearrangements of API calls, and also explicitly set the badge and tile view to 
nil on app exit. Hopefully at least one of these things will fix it. Thanks for 
all the help tracking this down. And if this still happens in 3.6, post again 
or file a new issue. Closing this one for now.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2012 at 10:17

• Changed state: Fixed

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Issue 610 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2012 at 4:39

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Problem still exists in 3.6

Original comment by ocakli...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 5:59

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Can you be more specific?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 6:01

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I still see an 1 badge on the icon of the application after I used it.

Original comment by ocakli...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 6:03

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Under which circumstances does that happen?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 6:05

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Very rare (only once) since 3.6 installed (5th January) I have just noticed 
today after unzipping a zip archive.

Original comment by ocakli...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 6:14

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I'm experiencing the same problem with 3.6. I downloaded The Unarchiver to 
extract a large .7z file and now a "1" notification appears over the icon in 
Launchpad. I only clicked on the archive to extract and the badge stays even 
with the application open (but it doesn't show in the dock, only Launchpad).

Original comment by joshua.j...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2013 at 10:27

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According to issue 637, this apparently still happens. Reopening, although I 
have no idea what to do about it. If anyone ever figures anything useful out 
about this, please post.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2013 at 2:07

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Maybe

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Issue 637 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2013 at 2:07

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Is this still happening for anyone?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2014 at 9:11