Jiggling the autoHilite handle

[Troy Rollins]

I have some rectangle buttons in my project which don't behave too 
nicely in OSX. They seem to like to retain the "down state". The hilite 
value is set sometimes programmatically, other times via mouse 
interaction. In either case, they can hold not the hilite state, but 
whatever the autohilite state is called (the darkest button state, 
mouseDown, whatever).

The only thing I've been able to do to thwart these unruly buttons is 
to "jiggle the handle."

set the autoHilite of button "Unruly Button" to FALSE
set the autoHilite of button "Unruly Button" to TRUE

In some of my button cases, these states need to be resolved several 
times a second, and there are at least several buttons which have these 
needs. My hope was that by using OS styled buttons, my interface would 
gain speed, but such behavior, and the only remedy I've found, seems to 
fly in the face of that.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen similar behaviors, and how they may 
have remedied the situation.
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Troy
RPSystems, Ltd.
http://www.rpsystems.net