Screentogif: Clicking not working when recording Inkscape

[Cornstar23]

Clicking on buttons, menus, object, etc. sometimes does not work when recording Inkscape. See attached gif and notice the yellow highlights indicating clicking, but the buttons are not pressed.

[NickeManarin]

Very strange... :/

[AdrianoCahete]

Same as Photoshop 2017. Sometimes the first click don't work, but the others works fine.

[theJosher]

I'll take a look at this one.

[NickeManarin]

@theJosher Thanks!

[theJosher]

@NickeManarin Can you point me in the direction of where the mouse events are being passed to the app? Sorry for not finding this myself, I started looking and then realized there is a LOT going on in LightWindow and RecorderWindow 😅 Thanks! btw, I've got the inkscape code compiling and added a couple of g_message() calls to see if I can track down what's happening with the mouse events. This will be fun.

[NickeManarin]

@theJosher Sorry for that. 😅 It all started so simple.

Anyway, it's all in here ScreenToGif.Util.ActivityHook, line 649.

I've got the inkscape code compiling and added a couple of g_message() calls to see if I can track down what's happening with the mouse events. This will be fun.

Oh, that's nice!

[theJosher]

Sorry I asked poorly - I'm mainly curious where the "hollow part" of the window does its magic. The mouse hook doesn't cause this problem, so I'm thinking that GTK is getting an event it interprets as mouse leaving the window entirely.

[NickeManarin]

Ahhh, sorry.

It's a combination of Background="{x:Null}", WindowStyle="None" and AllowsTransparency="True".

Background
WindowStyle and AllowsTransparency

[theJosher]

Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:07 AM Nicke Manarin [e-mail]
wrote:

Ahhh, sorry.

It's a combination of Background="{x:Null}", WindowStyle="None" and
AllowsTransparency="True".

Background
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/blob/e91bf02c47795d750182d8357e50a53dd313f474/ScreenToGif/Themes/Generic.xaml#L80
WindowStyle and AllowsTransparency
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/blob/e91bf02c47795d750182d8357e50a53dd313f474/ScreenToGif/Windows/Recorder.xaml#L7

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[LaureFR38]

I have exactly the same problem. I wanted to demo with Inkscape v.092 but it is not possible with ScreenToGif.
It is impossible to select the menu after clicking in the drawing area. The only solution is to take the mouse cursor out of the Inkscape software and bring it back again. But it's really painful to do this after each click on drawing zone...

[LaureFR38]

With the new version of Inkscape v1.0, the problem is still there but it works a little better but there are always problems with the cursor of the mouse which does not manage to update and which does not manage to do the function which associated with it.