active-win 8.1.0 reports empty title strings on Adobe products on macOS despite correct permissions about active-win HOT 2 OPEN

So I was able to narrow it down. I wrote a super quick script that rewrites the last stdout line to process.stdout.write(`${window.title} - ${window.owner.name}`)

This way I could navigate around see live updates to what active-win is seeing. Unfortunately it seems that almost any action in Illustrator causes their window to have an empty title.

Here's the default view (you can see the correct title at the bottom of the adobe window):

But when you open any dropdown field like stroke or fonts it suddenly becomes empty:

Same when eg. just opening a toolbar:

Or even simpler – just a context menu:

Is there anything we can do about this or are our hands tied since Adobe doesn't return anything here?

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Ok, so after all it just simply seems that all those interactions technically launch sort of mini windows that obviously take the first space in the open-window-stack. Since they are launched from the "correct" window I can use activeWindow.getOpenWindows() and if the first entry is one of those empty title shenanigans I can take the second entry and if the app name matches and has a window title, I can use that one. Sounds a bit flaky, so I will run some tests, but I guess its sort of a valid way to go about it.

Since it's not really an error on active-wins end, but rather an inconvenience by adobe, feel free to close this issue.

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