Terminal: Store listing erroneously disables Game Bar recording

[richardszalay]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Currently, attempting to record a Windows Terminal window using Game bar results in the error:

This game does not allow recording

Being able to record the terminal would be useful for a bunch of scenarios.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

I'm not clear on what's involved here (whether WT is actively blocking the request or if it requires handling some specific messages)

[zadjii-msft]

That's very odd, since I just used the game bar to record the terminal window last week.

If anyone has more information on what might be causing this, I'd welcome a fix.

[DHowett-MSFT]

I wonder if a new version of _game bar_ regressed this? I definitely recall it working.

[metathinker]

I see the problem too! In case it is a Game Bar problem, I created a Windows feedback item against Game Bar recording: https://aka.ms/AA5sj9s

Hopefully the uploaded diagnostics will be enough to diagnose the problem.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Thanks.

[metathinker]

Game bar thinks Windows Terminal is not a game, but some people want it to be (for recording purposes)

Game Bar can be used perfectly well to record non-games; in older versions, you had to manually tell Game Bar that the app you wanted to record was a game before it would let you record the app, but this is no longer the case for manually started recordings. I used Game Bar to record Notepad just now with no impediments.

So this problem is not merely that Game Bar does not recognize Terminal as a game, but that Game Bar is actively rejecting Terminal as something it can't record.

[dan2600]

Does it need to be implicitly allowed? Or does Windows Desktop Extensions need to be included in the codebase? I can't find anything in the code that would disallow it.

Windows::Media::Capture::AppCapture::SetAllowedAsync(allowed);
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/gaming/capture-game-audio-video-screenshots-and-metadata

[bigbrad7794]

Vd ´

On Tue., Aug. 13, 2019, 9:26 p.m. Dan, [e-mail] wrote:

Does it need to be implicitly allowed?

Windows::Media::Capture::AppCapture::SetAllowedAsync(allowed);

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/gaming/capture-game-audio-video-screenshots-and-metadata

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[metathinker]

Per discussion outside this issue thread, it looks like the current version of Terminal in the Store had a defect in its Store app publishing such that Game Bar recording was explicitly forbidden. I'm told this will be corrected in the next Store version of Terminal.

[richardszalay]

@metathinker If this is a store app metadata issue, should the "Help-Wanted" tag be removed?

[DHowett-MSFT]

:wink:

[DHowett-MSFT]

I don’t love that a fully out of band service can control this

[metathinker]

@metathinker If this is a store app metadata issue, should the "Help-Wanted" tag be removed?

@richardszalay, sorry for the confusion on this point - I don't have the ability to change the issue title or tags, or to close or reopen the issue. That is because I don't actually work on the Terminal feature team here at Microsoft and they have restricted those privileges to themselves.

Hence, you'll need to address requests like yours to @microsoft/windows-console-team or @DHowett-MSFT instead. The most I can do is walk down the hall to Dustin's office and nag him in person :)

[richardszalay]

This is fixed in v0.4.2382.0 but wasn't included in the release notes.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Thanks for the catch.