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Fix Windows recording selection, HUD overlays, and window controls - #1208
Fix Windows source picking and HUD interaction, keep recording surrounds clear of controls, and add compact Windows/Linux window controls. Also replace the slow Windows wallpaper lookup with the native helper.
Motivation
The fullscreen transparent HUD could obscure selectable windows and lose click handling. Recording surrounds could cover controls or disappear after telemetry resets. The wallpaper tile could remain disabled after its PowerShell lookup timed out.
No screenshot attached. Windows maximize/restore was checked in the running app, and the user confirmed that the desktop wallpaper tile works. The existing header remains 56 px high; caption buttons have 32 x 32 rounded hover backgrounds.
Testing Guide
On Windows, select another application's window through the HUD. Confirm Recordly does not intercept the source selection.
Start recording a region/window. Confirm the surround starts after countdown, stays aligned, and leaves HUD/webcam/menu controls clear. Transparent webcam corners should pass clicks through.
In the editor/library, use minimize, maximize/restore, and close. Confirm the 56 px header height is unchanged and unsaved-project close handling is preserved.
Under Scene > Image, select Desktop wallpaper. Confirm its preview and the canvas show the current Windows wallpaper. No-wallpaper configurations should fail cleanly without a PowerShell retry.
Windows/Linux onboarding should skip the macOS permissions screen.
Validation: 96 focused tests passed across 13 files; lint and translation checks passed. The Windows x64 helper was rebuilt and its binary/source manifest verified. Full-project TypeScript validation passed; GitHub checks are validating the pushed head.
Checklist
I have read and agree to the contribution terms, including the additional commercial licensing grant, and am authorized to make those grants. (Owner attestation left unchecked.)
I have performed a self-review of my code.
I have added any necessary screenshots or videos.
I have linked related issues; no changelog update is required for this fix.
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New Features
Added minimize, maximize/restore, and close controls to editor windows, with localized labels.
Onboarding now proceeds automatically on non-macOS platforms without showing the macOS permissions screen.
HUD interactive areas now support elliptical shapes.
Bug Fixes
Improved capture-picker window detection and positioning, including excluding the app’s own window.
Improved HUD pointer recovery and recording-focus overlays, keeping interactive HUD areas clear.
Recording focus uses selected window bounds more consistently on Windows.
Improved Windows desktop wallpaper and window geometry detection.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
The changes add native Windows geometry commands and use them for window bounds, capture-source listings, and wallpaper lookup. They update HUD interaction and recording-focus overlays, add platform-aware editor window controls, and make onboarding complete without the permission screen on non-macOS platforms.
Changes: Windows recording geometry and HUD
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Native Windows geometry commands electron/native/cursor-monitor/src/main.cpp, electron/native/cursor-monitor/CMakeLists.txt, electron/native/bin/win32-x64/helpers-manifest.json
The native helper adds commands for wallpaper paths, window bounds, and visible-window listings. It links against dwmapi, and its manifest entry is updated.
Windows consumers query the native helper for geometry, capture listings, or wallpaper paths. Window-bound requests validate geometry and share in-flight lookups. Capture listings exclude windows owned by the current process. Consumers retain PowerShell fallbacks where described.
The HUD reports refreshed interactive bounds, including elliptical bounds, and Windows pointer recovery polls those bounds. Recording-focus rectangles exclude protected HUD areas. Windows overlays use the screen-saver level and reassert click-through behavior. The countdown path no longer starts recording focus before waiting.
Editor window chrome and controls
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Summary
Window-control API and IPC electron/electron-env.d.ts, electron/preload.ts, electron/ipc/register/settings.ts, electron/ipc/register/settings.test.ts, electron/windowControls.ts, electron/windowControls.test.ts
The Electron API adds minimize, maximize, and close actions. IPC applies an action to the sender’s window and returns a success result. The implementation returns false for missing, destroyed, or unsupported targets.
Platform chrome state and editor controls electron/windows.ts, src/components/video-editor/layout/AppFrameHeader.tsx, src/components/video-editor/layout/WindowControls.tsx, src/components/video-editor/layout/WindowControls.test.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*/common.json
Non-macOS editor windows use frameless chrome and publish maximized state. The header subscribes to chrome state and displays localized controls when custom controls are enabled.
webadderallorg/Recordly#1207: Windows HUD capture behavior and exclusion of Recordly-owned windows relate to the reported recording-bar capture issue.
webadderallorg/Recordly#1156: HUD hit testing and recording-control exclusions relate to the reported Windows control responsiveness issue. The graphic tablet input issue is not addressed.
This change fixes Windows recording selection, HUD hit testing and editor window controls. The earlier concerns about webcam corner hit testing, the lint failure, the missing translation keys and the empty-wallpaper fallback appear addressed in the current head. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.
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The title names three areas: Windows recording selection, HUD overlays, and window controls. The raw summary shows the changeset covers all three: Recordly-owned windows are excluded from Windows pick…
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The title names three areas: Windows recording selection, HUD overlays, and window controls. The raw summary shows the changeset covers all three: Recordly-owned windows are excluded from Windows picking, HUD interactive bounds and pointer recovery are added, and a custom WindowControls component and windowControl IPC are added. The title is specific and does not cover the wallpaper follow-up or the macOS-only onboarding change, which is expected for a short title.
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The description covers the main purpose (Windows source picking, HUD interaction, recording surround clearance, Windows/Linux window controls, and native wallpaper lookup) and gives a motivation section. It also includes a type of change, a related issue, and a detailed testing guide with validation results. Gaps: the Description and Motivation do not mention the dropped Windows title bar or the onboarding change in the opening text, and the Related Issue entry says 'Related to #1207' without a closing reference. The Screenshots section has no screenshot or video, and the author gave a reason in the text (no visual capture), which is a partial gap for a UI change that adds window controls. The contribution-terms checkbox is left unchecked with an owner-attestation note, which the template requires for merge. The 'Type of Change' list marks Bug Fix and New Feature but the 'Other' item is not used, which is acceptable. Overall the description is mostly complete, so it passes, with the items below noted for the author.
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Review comments at @electron/windows.ts:
- Line 763: Update the fallback cleanup callback at the conditional expression
to use an expression-bodied no-op that returns undefined, avoiding an empty
block while preserving its no-op behavior.
Review comments at @src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx:
- Around line 164-169: Update the bounds mapping in LaunchWindow to preserve
each interactive bound’s shape, and update the corresponding IPC payload and
stored-bounds types so the optional ellipse shape remains available to the main
process’s hit-testing logic.
Review comments at @src/components/video-editor/layout/WindowControls.tsx:
- Line 9: Add the missing common.actions.minimize, common.actions.restoreWindow,
common.actions.maximize, and common.windowControls entries to the source
translation resources used by WindowControls. Use appropriate English source
values so these translation calls resolve from resources rather than relying on
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Review comments at @electron/native/cursor-monitor/src/main.cpp:
- Line 48: In the wallpaper conversion flow, handle a zero result from lstrlenW
before calling WideCharToMultiByte: emit the empty JSON string and return status
0, so the valid no-wallpaper result does not trigger the PowerShell fallback.
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Description
Fix Windows source picking and HUD interaction, keep recording surrounds clear of controls, and add compact Windows/Linux window controls. Also replace the slow Windows wallpaper lookup with the native helper.
Motivation
The fullscreen transparent HUD could obscure selectable windows and lose click handling. Recording surrounds could cover controls or disappear after telemetry resets. The wallpaper tile could remain disabled after its PowerShell lookup timed out.
Type of Change
Related Issue(s)
Related to #1207 (Windows recording HUD).
Screenshots / Video
No screenshot attached. Windows maximize/restore was checked in the running app, and the user confirmed that the desktop wallpaper tile works. The existing header remains 56 px high; caption buttons have 32 x 32 rounded hover backgrounds.
Testing Guide
Validation: 96 focused tests passed across 13 files; lint and translation checks passed. The Windows x64 helper was rebuilt and its binary/source manifest verified. Full-project TypeScript validation passed; GitHub checks are validating the pushed head.
Checklist
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